I have already noted this morning that David Cameron is desperately playing his anti-tax haven line again. This may not be by chance. Something co-ordinated
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Oxford’s tax gap deniers
There’s a letter in today’s Guardian from Prof Mike Devereux of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation. In it he claims that: Zoe Williams (G2, 23
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HMRC is wide open to abuse because of a lack of staff
The Mail has reported that a carpenter in Hull has been convicted of defrauding HMRC by retrospecively adjusting his on line tax returns to claim tax refunds
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The question the tax gap deniers must answer
The latest report from the Bank of England on the scale of cash usage in the UK economy has opened an intriguing question on UK
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Is the taxman really coming?
The FT has a ‘long read’ article this morning entitled HMRC: The taxman cometh By Tom Burgis and Vanessa Houlder the subtitle is: UK authorities
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Is there a £100 billion hole in Corbynomics?
The Telegraph has declared today that: Oops! There’s a £100 billion hole in Jeremy Corbyn’s tax plans This all comes down, quote literally, to Jolyon
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What use the tax gap? A defence of a key element in #Corbynomics
Jolyon Maugham wrote a blog with the first part of the above title yesterday afternoon. It was quite explicitly an attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s use
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A rare politician
I mentioned earlier this morning that I had been asked to make comment after a speech Jeremy Corbyn gave on the economy this morning. This
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The National Audit Office, the tax gap, HMRC and ‘other estimates’
The National Audit Office issued its report on the annual report of HM Revenue & Customs on Friday. It’s a good job it did as
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