HMRC has just announced that two-thirds of the 800 biggest businesses operating in the United Kingdom are under enquiry. According to a press release they
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I floated the idea of an Office for Tax Responsibility at the PAC Conference yesterday, and the response was interesting and favourable from some key
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The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee is holding what is, I think, the first ever conference staged by such a committee today, looking, almost
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I was in debate with Heinz Zourek, the Director General of EU taxation yesterday at an event I have already mentioned. During that debate I
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George Osborne is in Berlin today to sign a new deal that will make automatic information exchange from some tax havens a reality. As I understand
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The EU published new VAT gap data last week for all 28 member states. The UK summary is here (click the image for a bigger
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I am aware that there are some who think my criticism of HMRC’s tax gap report was on the heavy side yesterday. In particular, they
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I have often said that I think it wholly inappropriate that HMRC’s board only has non-executive directors who represent the interests of big business. No
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I take it as read that HMRC’s tax gap data is nonsense: I have explained why that has to be the case many times, most
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