HM Revenue & Customs has published a business plan for 2011/2015. On its first page it says: HM Revenue & Customs’ vision is: – to
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I have been musing on why the UK government is proposing to do such a disastrous deal with the Swiss government. A deal so bad
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Want to know more about the Vodafone tax story? Parmy Olson has given a good guide to it in Forbes on her return from maternity
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I wrote yesterday about the Swiss / UK tax deal that was signed by the ConDems yesterday. I said: A person will under this new
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In possibly the most lacklustre speech ever made by a minister to a party conference Danny Alexander has announced HM Revenue & Customs is to
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Listening to LibDems today you’d think that tax gap is a marginal issue. It isn’t. These are tables from the HMRC report on the tax
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I have the following blog on the CIPFA Public Finance site today: HMRC is in trouble. Maybe the only people who are surprised are the
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I note the Mail reports: He had refused to apologise for the underpaid tax fiasco — and it was only after pressure from the Chancellor
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I’ve defended HMRC’s right to collect PAYE owing, very publicly, including on Radio 2 in the last week. I maintain that position. But Dave Hartnett
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