HM Revenue & Customs published their latest tax gap estimates yesterday. These cover the tax year 2023/24. The summary data looks like this and presents
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Do tax havens still matter?
Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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Are the wealthy ripping off HM Revenue & Customs?
The National Audit Office (NAO) issued a report yesterday that suggested: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) defines wealthy individuals as those earning more than £200,000
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Why doesn’t the UK punish people who break company law?
Why doesn’t the UK government care about the fact that UK company law is not enforced? What is the point of having law that they
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It’s time to be serious about tax evasion
As the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has reported: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) estimates that tax evasion cost the UK £5.5 billion in
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The tax justice movement really does need to get its demands right
As the Guardian reported yesterday: The UK’s offshore financial centres must fall in behind plans to stop “dirty money” by publishing registers of corporate ownership,
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HMRC’s steady decline continues
As the FT noted a couple of days ago: The number of HM Revenue & Customs investigations into serious tax fraud and avoidance has fallen
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Wealth taxes can only be built on the foundations created by those who fought tax havens
Way back in 2005, John. Christensen and I wrote what was to become the foundational document of tax justice, which it still is in many
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Will Reeves reform HM Revenue & Customs?
Yahoo News appears to be just about the only media with this news story this morning: Tax dodgers will be targeted by Rachel Reeves, who
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