I posted this thread on Twitter this morning to explain the launch of the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Everywhere you look there is reason for
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Ending higher rates of tax relief on pension contributions would raise £14.5 billion in tax a year
The first of the thirty or so recommendations for tax reform to be made in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 has been published this morning.
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The case for investment in HMRC is overwhelming
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales published an article this week in which they noted: Since 10 July 2023, an HMRC taskforce
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There is lots of money available – if you know where to look for it
I think the time has come for me to note the project that I am working on this summer. Like so many readers of this
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HMRC have marked their own homework on the tax gap again and have awarded themselves a nice mark, as usual
Yesterday was HMRC tax gap day – which is the day when they admit how much tax they did not collect, in their estimation. My standard joke
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We need a Ministry of Taxation and an Office for Tax Responsibility
I was asked yesterday about an old idea of mine – or rather, two of them. They are for the need for an Office for
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Advancing Fiscal Transparency for Development: a free online course
I have posted on the new Tax Transparency Principles that I have co-authored for the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency that were published last week,
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New standards for tax transparency published for governments around the world
The following news release was issued by my employer, the University of Sheffield, this morning, and relates to a story here on Friday: New standards
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Tax spillovers, the REF and tax transparency
As academics know, the REF, or Research Excellence Framework, is a big deal as far as universities go. Happening once every even years it appraises
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