There are a lot of rumours floating that this is Philip Hammond’s last budget. This could be because May won’t make it for a lot
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The well known fact checking charity Full Fact looked at claims on the UK tax gap yesterday. I opened the page with some trepidation. This
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This is from Gabriel Zucman’s latest work: The UK is losing over 20% of all corporate profits that should be subject to tax before they
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It has not taken me long to have my usual doubts about HMRC’s latest annual report on the tax gap. This is their summary of
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HMRC has literally just published its 2017 tax gap estimate. And, as I predicted to many, the answer is, as it has almost invariably been,
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It so happens that the day before the new UK tax gap data was published by HMRC my suggestions on how this issue might be
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I discussed tax gaps at the academic meeting I am attending in Prague yesterday and suggested new approaches to the study of the issue. In
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I am reliably informed that the UK’s new tax gap data is out this week. More than a decade ago I was one of the
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The Public Accounts Committee has published the evidence submitted to it regarding Amazon and eBay and VAT non-compliance. That evidence is here. I think it’s
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