The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales published an article this week in which they noted: Since 10 July 2023, an HMRC taskforce
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HMRC have marked their own homework on the tax gap again and have awarded themselves a nice mark, as usual
Yesterday was HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My standard joke
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HMRC dissembled (at best) when proposing Making Tax Digital, as I exposed in 2017. Now it is time to end this fiasco.
As the FT noted yesterday: HM Revenue & Customs omitted key figures from its business case about how much its Making Tax Digital programme will
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What did Nadhim Zahawi do wrong?
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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