Accountancy Age had an interesting article yesterday (and it’s not often I say that these days). As they reported: The number of dawn raids carried out
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Suppose prospective MPs were asked to sign a tax pledge before next year’s general election? What might it say? This was an idea discussed at
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In my new report ‘In the Shade: the UK’s missing economy’ I suggest that HM Revenue & Customs are lax, in the extreme, in their efforts
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Over a number of months Carline Lucas MP has asked a series of parliamentary questions seeking to secure information regarding the penalties paid by companies
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I had this column on the Independent website yesterday: It was just chance that I decided to publish my new report  on the size of the UK’s
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I have already blogged on one response made by HMRC to my new reports on the tax gap as reported in the Guardian this morning.
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I am very amused by HMRC’s response to my new reports – ‘In the Shade: The UK’s missing economy’ – as reported in the Guardian
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Over many years I, and colleagues in the Tax Justice Network and elsewhere, said that offshore banking, and Swiss banking in particular, involved corruption. Now, as the
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There was good overnight press coverage for my new report on the size of the UK shadow economy. The FT made it the main UK
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