The Tories have some very strange relationships with tax given that it is tax that permits their exercise of power, which is much of what
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We live in a lawless, fraudulent country managed by a government intent on providing opportunity for corruption
Data recently published by the UK wide Companies House shows that more than 800,000 companies were created in the year to 31 March 2021. That
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UK company law and tax enforcement is so bad it’s almost as if the government wanted to encourage tax abuse
The Guardian ran an excellent article yesterday on the likely tax abuse inherent in the outsourced Covid track and trace contracts. As they recounted: Many
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HMRC plans to provide a personalised service to offshore tax cheats to avoid having to name them as the criminals that they are
The FT has an article today in which they note that: Tax advisers said HM Revenue & Customs had made a “refreshing shift” away from
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The tax gap is huge, and we would have a fairer tax system and collect more tax if we resourced HMRC properly to address this issue
I was amused to note this on Fox Business news in the USA: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday that if the IRS were funded
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Getting tax on consulting right is about working out how to tax what actually happens – which no existing solution can deliver
It would seem that The Times is being used by HM Treasury on a quite regular basis now for kite flying tax reforms. The latest
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Abandoning taxes to keep trucks moving is a profoundly costly error
As The Independent has reported: Taxes totalling £800m could go unpaid this year because of border checks on lorries being scaled back to avoid queues
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Alienation of the taxpayer is no way to run a tax system. HMRC should take note.Â
The FT has reported this morning that HM Revenue & Customs are refusing to extend the tax return submission deadline this year. As a result
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Time to move on from the straitjacket of the limited company
In 2007 I wrote the blog post that follows. This afternoon I am presenting the paper that is linked within that post to the Loan
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