For those interested I am giving evidence to the above committee this afternoon at 4.15pm. It is live streamed on the internet. My evidence is
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Big business disputes £25bn in tax – equivalent to a year’s spending cuts
As the Guardian reports: Britain’s largest companies are in dispute with HM Revenue & Customs over paying £25bn worth of tax, according to the latest
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H M Revenue & Customs is letting big business off the hook – according to its own senior staff
ARC – the Association of Revenue and Customs – which is the union for higher grade staff at H M Revenue & Customs has issued
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H M Revenue & Customs is failing to collect tax penalties owing on a staggering scale
There’s a story this morning in the press about H M Revenue & Customs’ failure to collect tax due from those with whom it agreed
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The next tax evaders to be targetted
A while ago I suggested two groups of tax evaders that HMRC should pay attention to. They were private tutors and users of e-bay. People
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Do you remember when they said the Liechtenstein deal wouldn’t work?
When the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility was first offered by H M Revenue & Customs the tax profession said it wouldn’t rasie anything like the amount of money the
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If you really believe in small business then you have to ensure that tax cheats are driven out of the market
Only one in three companies in the UK pay tax. It’s likely that up to one in two, at least, should. The rest don’t pay
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How come HMRC has 500,000 names of tax evaders but there’s been no action?
There has been some publicity over the last few days about H M Revenue & Customs having secured the names of 500,000 people in this country
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Google: big time tax avoider, and getting bigger by the year (£187 million in UK in 2009)
The Sunday Times did an expose of Google’s tax affairs today. I’ll declare an interest: they asked me to help the investigation, and I did.
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