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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A tax inspector talked about what it’s really like in HMRC on the Today programme this morning. Listen again here.

It’s not just HMRC who make computer errors. I got the following in an email form Easyjet at 2.20 this morning: Dear RICHARD MURPHY We
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There’s lots of comment this morning that those about to receive demands for back tax because of PAYE processing errors can claim relief because of
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I have defended HMRC’s right to collect the tax owing to it as a result of the error on its part in processing PAYE data.
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A commentator on this site has said in response to a blog post on the news story that HMRC have found millions of people have
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