There was a great deal of discussion here yesterday about the government’s decision to reinstate the winter fuel allowance, with decidedly complicated tax arrangements attached
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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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On taxes on wealth in the Express today
This is in the Express today: The rest is here. They suggest people should brace themselves for what I have to say, which is really
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Starving the beast
As the New York Times has reported: The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump
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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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Our tax system needs radical rethinking – not tinkering over costs
Both the FT and the Guardian note criticisms of HM Revenue & Customs raised by the National Audit Office this morning. As the NAO says:
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Charter cities would destroy the UK
Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even
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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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