The EU Tax Observatory has a new report on tax evasion out this morning. Or, to be precise, they have a new report on tax
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Taxing Wealth Report 2024: Reforming Companies House might raise £6 billion of tax a year
I have this morning published the next in my series of proposals that will make up the Taxing Wealth Report 2024. In this latest note, I
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Ecclestone has been caught: now we need to use the methods that caught him within the UK domestic economy
As almost all of the media report, former Formula 1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone pleaded guilty to tax fraud yesterday. He won’t go to prison: the
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Automatic information exchange works
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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