To continue my series on necessary tax reforms I turn next to the vital reform that is needed of HMRC: _____________________ For archaic constitutional reasons
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Financing the Scottish economy: my talk this morning
I am in Crieff in Perthshire this morning to address the annual conference of COSLA – the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities. This is (give
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If Labour has any sense it would go for an Office for Tax Responsibility
Polly Toynbee has written this in the last hour or so in the Guardian when discussing the importance of cracking down on tax abuse post
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Companies have forgotten how to make money
The last of the ‘pullover’ videos deals mainly with issues relating to tax competition: If you want me to suggest a company that has no
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Why won’t politicians collect tax that’s due?
I have often argued about the absurdity if the UK underinvesting in HM Revenue & Customs at cost to us all in terms of lost
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Shut parliament for a year to close the tax gap
Andrew Phillips, who sits in the Lords as Lord Phillips of Sudbury for the LibDems, joined us for the session of The People’s Parliament last
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HMRC claim the VAT gap is down but how do they know when most VAT inspections have ended?
Amongst the many statistical releases made yesterday by HMRC was a new estimate of the VAT gap for the UK, this being the first estimate
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Which one would you focus on? The tax gap or benefit fraud?
Why is the government wanting you to focus on the yellow spot and not the red circle? You decide which is more important. And then
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It’s not by chance that HMRC is not closing the tax gap: it’s policy
As the BBC has noted: The Public Accounts Committee has criticised HM Revenue & Customs for its “unacceptably slow” action against tax avoiders. Margaret Hodge,
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