My old sparring partner, Prof Judith Freedman of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation, has an article in the FT this morning on the need for
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£117 billion needs to be better spent
The FT carries a headline this morning that says: Rightly, the article says that calls for a review of the spends is overdue. I agree.
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HMRC’s falling way short of George’s expectations
As I have noted here, time and again, George Osborne has always made the most extraordinary assumptions about the growth in self assess income tax
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When HMRC cannot operate at the most basic level something’s profoundly wrong
As the Guardian has reported: People who filed late tax returns have been let off a £100 fine for missing the deadline, it has been
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Time to limit tax reliefs – and create an Office for Tax Responsibility
This is what the National Audit Office had to say on the cost 0f tax reliefs, yesterday: “HM Treasury and HMRC do not keep track
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The Office for Tax Responsibility is already getting legs – and I can even find the cash to fund it
Transfer Pricing Weekly (another of my best read secrets, and behind a paywall) has reported on last weeks PAC conference, saying (amongst other things, of
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