PCS have just issued the following press release: Tax evasion spirals to more than £80 billion a year, new figures show The cost of tax
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A new report by PCS, the union for most staff at HMRC, issued this morning, reappraises the UK tax gap and suggests it was £119.4
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Reports suggest that Labour is considering hypothecated national insurance increases to pay for additional NHS spending during the next parliament. I have to admit I
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I have just spoken at the Reinventing Our Economy conference in Glasgow. This is, broadly speaking, what I had to say: Thank you for asking
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I have published a bog on the need for a motion on tax justice related issues that local councillors can put to the authorities of
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I spoke at a fringe meeting at the Green Party last night. This is roughly what I said (as I never stick to my script):
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New corporation tax statistics are out from HMRC this morning. They can be looked at from all sorts of directions of course, but one of
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I have already mentioned the political furore slowly developing over HMRC’s bogus claims of compliance tax yield this morning, but I also think it important
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The Independent has made a bit of a splash this morning on the fact that George Osborne has mislead parliament on the amount of tax
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