The FT has reported: Revenue & Customs will adopt a less combative approach to resolving tax disputes with businesses in a move designed to cut
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Questions I’d ask if I was a tax inspector #3: tell me your top ten customers
I’ve been noting some questions I’d be asking of selected taxpayers if I was a tax inspector. The first two, asking about cash payments to
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There is an answer
The Guardian notes: Thousands of taxpayers were overcharged in 2009-10 by HM Revenue & Customs, which collected an "unacceptable" £238m too much tax as a
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Questions I’d ask if I was a tax inspector #2: who is paying private medical fees in cash?
I mentioned yesterday that I though I should suggest some enquiries I thought HM Revenue & Customs should make to root out the cash economy
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Questions I’d ask if I was a tax inspector #1: who is paying school fees in cash?
I’ve welcomed a new line of enquiry by HM Revenue & Customs on offshore accounts, reported this morning. In saying so I did, however, imply
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Why isn’t HM Revenue & Customs monitoring its debts?
HM Revenue & Customs’ accounts continue to bemuse me. I mentioned some of its strategic objectives yesterday, and the baffling assessment it has offered with
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HMRC say 51.6% of UK taxpayers are willing and able to pay their taxes
As noted yesterday, HM Revenue & Customs have dispensed with their annual report this year as the Cabinet Office say they don’t need one and
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Why turn a blind eye to the tax gap David and look at benefit fraud instead?
An article in the Telegraph at the weekend can’t be ignored in the context of the Tax Gap: The Prime Minister [has] singled out the
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HMRC’s accounts: saving £124 million to increase the tax gap by £2.3 billion
As I noted yesterday, the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs have decided not to publish an Annual report on their performance this year. We’re going
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