I recorded this podcast with AccountingWeb yesterday. I address some big themes in current tax and accounting, including the future of KPMG:
The UK needs a new tax politics
HM Revenue & Customs is under fire from the Public Accounts Committee this morning, and rightly so. In a new report they say: HMRC ignorance
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If we want thriving markets in the UK we have to beat tax evasion, but the government is not listening
I noticed this article in the American Economic Review yesterday: Nothing surprises me about this finding, which is completely consistent with arguments I have been
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Can we tax multi-millionaires?
The video in this post is the third in a series on how to tax multimillionaires. The first and second are here. In this video
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How corrupt is the UK?
Boris Johnson claimed yesterday that the UK is not remotely corrupt. The guffaws of disbelief could be heard all around the press conference to which
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The government’s lax approach to company regulation is permitting fraud that it is doing nothing to stop
I welcome this editorial from the FT this morning: There is nothing much in the editorial that I have not said before. It is, however,
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HMRC’s tax gap measure suggests that its claims to be making the tax system easier to use are not justified
As I noted earlier today HMRC published their tax gap data for 2020 this morning. I have been distracted all day by other demands, but
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HM Revenue & Customs is moving in the right direction on tax evasion – so why won’t it collect all the data it needs to clamp down on abuse?
I had not noted a new consultation started by HM Revenue & Customs on 31 July, but which is definitely worth commenting on. The consultation
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HM Revenue & Customs is not fit for purpose
This comes from my paper on a future tax system for Scotland, but since it explains why HM Revenue & Customs does not provide a
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