Dave Hartnett told the Treasury Select Committee yesterday: All our legal advice is that winning in the Court of Appeal may not be enough for us to
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Dave Hartnett, boss of HMRC, was in front of the Treasury Select Committee yesterday defending his appalling and almost certainly illegal deal with Switzerland. As
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Accountancy Age reports: Swiss banks have already begun helping UK clients move their money to Singapore in defiance of an agreement struck with the UK last week, Accountancy
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I have reposted the following from the Treasure Islands blog with Nick Shaxson’s permission: From The Telegraph: Tax amnesties — such as the deal announced with
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City AM reports this morning: THE taxman is investigating the affairs of around 800 wealthy British HSBC clients who held money in Swiss bank accounts
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The Treasury press release on the Swiss deal is out. Dave Hartnett, de facto boss of HMRC whose fingers are very obviously all over this
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I should stop blogging on UK – Swiss the tax deal but it’s so bad I can’t, yet. Consider this.  Under the deal the tax withholding rate to
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According to the Guardian: The Treasury select committee sees HM Revenue & Customs barely able to function, as a result of real-terms cuts to its
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From Private Eye: Good to see that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) knows who the real tax-dodging villains are in Britain. Having let Vodafone and
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