Over many years, I argued for automatic information exchange of data from tax havens to authorities like HM Revenue & Customs. This means that the
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Reforming the administration of corporation tax in the UK might raise at least £6 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will together make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this note, I suggest that
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024: the UK needs better estimation of its tax gap to prevent the illicit accumulation of wealth
I have this morning published the next note in the Taxing Wealth Report 2024 series. In it, I suggest that it is essential that the UK
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Wealth is undertaxed by £170 billion a year in the UK
The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 suggests that wealth in the UK might be undertaxed by up to £170 billion a year when compared to income
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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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Additions to the glossary
am aware that I said I wanted a day off yesterday, but I watched slow television on BBC4 last night and added a pile of
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The failings of Companies House
I published this glossary entry under the title of the Registrar of Companies yesterday. I am trying to add between ten and fifteen entries a
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Is it time to make tax avoidance illegal?
I wrote this tweet yesterday: We can apparently legislate to make the intention to protest peacefully a crime but we can’t apparently legislate to make
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