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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I am aware that I have mentioned the IMF’s latest quarterly report in a number of posts over the last day or so. I think
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I spent yesterday discussing transparency in government revenues cycles. That may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but I suffer from excitement by taxation, and
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The European Commission has taken Ireland to court for failing to collect the €13 billion tax demand on Apple imposed last year. The press release
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The Guardian reports this morning that: Banks and building societies are to carry out immigration checks on 70m current accounts from January in the biggest extension
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The Scottish Herald newspaper had an excellent article on Scotland as a tax haven yesterday which also focused on one of my continual concerns, which
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I had a mail from a person in the company formation business in the last few days. They said: I don’t know if you have
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Many will know the enormous loss of VAT revenue that it has been suggested might result from fraudulent traders making sales on Amazon and eBay
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