The Public Accounts Committee has published a report this morning on HM Revenue & Customs’ approach to estimating the U.K. tax gap. It is pretty
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The tax gap: why HMRC has always seriously underestimated it
The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on HM Revenue and Custom’s tax gap estimates this morning. As I will note in a
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Whatever Liz Truss says about freeports today, their greatest benefit is to tax abusers and, worse still, organised crime
Liz Truss is, apparently, out and about, promoting freeports today. I recently submitted a fairly lengthy comment to the Government’s consultation on the creation of new Freeport
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Reforming the tax gap calculation is long overdue, but not if the result is just another set of fixed data
I missed this in The Mail on Sunday last weekend: The Government’s claim that £31billion of taxes go uncollected each year is based on a
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Freeports – and why we do not need them in the UK
I recently submitted a fairly lengthy comment to the Government’s consultation on the creation of new Freeport in the UK, suggesting that it was almost
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The case for capital gains tax reform: a submission to the Office for Tax Simplification
As was widely noted a few weeks ago, the Office for Tax Simplification is undertaking a review of capital gains tax, and appears to be
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It’s time to review tax reliefs – because they could be hopelessly misspent
As the Public Accounts Committee has noted this morning: The Government knows too little about the tax reliefs it provides: whether they work, or offer
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HMRC is taking on big business using tax havens – and the only obvious explanation is country-by-country reporting
As the FT notes this morning: A crackdown on multinationals shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions has increased the amount of tax HM Revenue & Customs
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A video explanation of country-by-country reporting
Country-by-country reporting has been back in the news of late, because data generated by it has for the first time shown the scale of likely
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