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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Why, oh why are HMRC jobs going when we have a massive tax gap?
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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You can’t keep fleecing the tax compliant and ignoring the non compliant without the compliant waking up to that fact
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 argument is over: HMRC understate the tax gap
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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Today’s Public Accounts Committee Hearing with HMRC – exposing the fact that we’re just not getting the service we need
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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The UK’s patent box rules for corporation tax violate EU law
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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The ONS says the UK shadow economy is 1.7% of GDP when HMRC says 12.2% of all VAT is missing
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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The chance to review international tax architecture seems to come about once a century and should not be ducked
The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor report published last week entitled Taxing Times has to be quoted at length when it comes to the reform of the
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In the interests of honest, fairness, business and the services we all depend upon the time has come to close the tax gap
It would be all too easy to dismiss anything Chris Huhne writes as being from the mind of a man show revealed a less than
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