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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HMRC fail to report – is it because they don’t want to talk about the tax gap?
From the Observer this morning: Ministers have been accused of reneging on commitments to open government after it emerged that HM Revenue and Customs had
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Who else is mad enough to pay first and ask questions later?
As the FT Adviser notes: Christos Charalambous completed more than 6000 self-assessment tax returns for clients, which included fictitious expenses claims in order to increase
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HMRC stops spending on systems designed to collect more tax
Computer Weekly reports that HM Revenue & Customs has frozen spending on IT. This form a department that admits there are 12 serious flaws in
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Tax profession hits out at cuts in HMRC help for taxpayers
Sometimes the tax profession gets things right. This has just posspoed into my inbox from the Low Income Tax Reform Group — sponsored by the
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What is the policy reason for ignoring tax abuse?
As Zoe Williams in the Guardian has noted: The tax office has finally disclosed how many people were hit by glitches in a new computer
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HMRC needs 5,000 more accountants
A commentator on the blog this morning said, in response to a piece on country-by-country reporting: Could you outline how you expect the information to
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