I have often said that I think it wholly inappropriate that HMRC’s board only has non-executive directors who represent the interests of big business. No
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Tearing HMRC’s tax gap estimates to shreds
I take it as read that HMRC’s tax gap data is nonsense: I have explained why that has to be the case many times, most
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The EU adopts full tax automatic information exchange – but HMRC need the staff to deal with the data
The following press release was issued by the EU yesterday: The Council agreed today on a draft directive extending the scope for the mandatory automatic exchange
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The face of tax evasion? It’s time to prosecute
I was amused by the presentation of this Guardian article this morning: I did wonder if there was an implication that I was now the
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Tax, self employment and Laffer: a little bit of theory and a lot of condemnation of practice
I mentioned yesterday that Tax barrister Jolyon Maugham is planning to use his blog to open up discussion on tax policy and that I welcome
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So George is going to introduce a Google tax. If only he knew I first wrote the Google tax story
George Osborne is, apparently, going to introduce what he has always said is impossible, which is a tax on Google’s profits resulting from its habit
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Creating the political consensus to fight tax evasion
My suggestion that the next, and biggest, issue to be addressed to deliver tax justice in the UK is tax evasion has already appeared to
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From tax avoidance to tax evasion: the new front for UK tax justice
We have been used to talking about tax avoidance as a focus for the UK Tax Justice campaign for a long time now. Companies like
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Tackling smaller business tax abuse by fundamental reform
Right wing ‘usual suspect’ trolls have been out in force on the comments section of the blog in the last day or two saying I
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