The BBC has reported on the government’s new accounts (which I have yet to look at in detail) and noted that: The committee said the
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I’ve just realised HMRC issued a new VAT gap estimate late last week. This is it: To put the data in context the time series
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I am at the Progressive Economy conference in Brussels this morning, speaking on tax abuse and the G20 amongst other things. This is what I
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HM Revenue & Customs admit the UK tax gap exceeds £35 billion a year. I argue it exceeds £95 billion on top of which there
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I rather liked this comment, from someone I know to be an accountant, on the blog this morning (I have edited slightly as I quote
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The tax gap debate in the UK was pretty much first sparked by my February 2008 paper for the TUC entitled The Missing Billions. Old
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I blogged twice this morning in anticipation of today’s Public Accounts Committee investigation of HMRC relating to its 2012/13 accounts. I suggested questions needing answers
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Tax Analysts reports this morning (behind a paywall) that: In a report prepared ahead of the October 22 meeting of the Code of Conduct Group
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I am occasionally making FoI requests now. I made one a few weeks ago when I anticipated the new tax gap report from HMRC coming
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