The World Bank and IMF backed Global Initiative for Financial Transparency coalition sent me their newsletter yesterday, which included this: The declaration they refer to
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Tax spillovers at the Biarritz Summit
The next G7 summit is in Biarritz at the end of August. The G7 Research Group at the Munk Scool at the University of Toronto
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You couldn’t make it up: Jersey is cracking down on tax avoiders
International Investment has noted: Jersey’s government is planning to launch a crackdown on islanders not paying their due tax, as it estimates to generate an
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HMRC has to get its statistics right
The Fair Tax Mark tweeted yesterday: Hmmm🤔 HMRC’s Annual Report just out. Curious how the UK’s official “Tax Gap” stays pretty much flat year-in year-out,
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Beating the offshore tax gap has happened because we thought outside the Treasury box
The FT has reported that: People hiding money overseas are increasingly being caught by the UK tax authority, which has sharply increased revenue from undeclared
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Why I stand by my tax gap estimate – including on the tax rate at which evasion takes place
I feel somewhat reluctant to return to the issue of my tax gap estimate, but since it is causing further debate I will. Let’s be
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Tax gaps and double entry (wonkish)
As some will have noticed, there have been those who have disputed my recent tax gap analysis, published here. The first was a person called
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HMRC underestimate the UK tax gap by £55 billion
I wrote this yesterday about HMRC’s tax gap estimates for this year, which had then not been published: I gather HMRC will be publishing their
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The UK tax gap is £90 billion a year
I gather HMRC will be publishing their latest tax gap figures this week. The last are here. I can make a fairly confident prediction. The
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