I have already noted the information I supplied on VAT fraud in advance of the hearing of the Tax3 Committee of the EU Parliament that
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The scale of EU tax fraud
I am presenting evidence to the EU Parliament’s Tax3 Committee this morning on VAT fraud. In advance of the hearing the Committee asked for my
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It’s time HMRC joined tax reformers in recognising the changes needed to tackle the tax gap
The very fact that videos like this can be and are made is some indication of the change in tax culture over the last decade.
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HMRC’s failure to come to terms with the tax gap represents gross negligence on its part, and that of its political masters
The government was not meant to make any announcements yesterday so that nothing distracted from the Grenfell Tower anniversary. So HMRC published their latest tax gap
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HMRC’s latest poorly estimated data on the tax gap has just been published – and the number is the one that could have been predicted in advance
HMRC has just gone through the process of announcing that their estimate of the UK tax gap is, as it always has been ever since
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Job done
In March I wrote about three tax inquiries started by parliamentary committees. They are on tax evasion and tax avoidance, the VAT tax gap and
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Tax Course: Combating Financial Fraud and Empowering Regulators
I will be co-directing a course at Copenhagen Business School from 12 to 14 September this year. It is part of their Masters in Tax course
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VAT and Brexit: the imperative of staying in the customs union
As the Guardian has reported this morning, the House of Lords has voted by a large majority to indicate that it would wish the UK to
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Three tax inquiries to get your teeth into
Three investigations were announced by the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons yesterday. Because the detail of these things do not usually get publicity I think
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