I talked about Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs on Owen Jones’ YouTube programme yesterday. The discussion covers the first 22 minutes of the programme:
The tax gap: the biggest waste of all?
This tweet has links to an article by me for Bylines: The Bylines Network special feature article this month comes from @RichardJMurphy, who explains how
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HMRC is not closing the tax gap
The Public Accounts Committee has noted failures in HMRC’s work in closing the tax gap this morning due to staff being diverted to tackle Covid
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Tackling tax abuse by the wealthy matters
I spend a lot of time criticising the management of HM Revenue & Customs, and for good reason, in my opinion. So, I should give
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On the tax gap, in the Guardian
My comments on the tax gap made yesterday were picked up in the Guardian which quotes me saying: Richard Murphy, a tax expert, said the
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HMRC is marking its own homework again on the tax gap – and very oddly found it did almost exactly the same as it always does
It is HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My
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HM Revenue & Customs really do not want to collect tax from the wealthy
I campaigned for automatic information exchange from tax havens for a long time. Perhaps my most important paper on the issue was published in 2009.
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Country-by-country reporting is beating transfer mispricing, as I always said it would
As Accountancy Age has reported: A 49% uptick in the amount of extra tax collected from investigations into large corporates shifting profits overseas is an
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Is HM Revenue & Customs turning the payment of tax into a voluntary activity for some?
AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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