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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HMRC’s new tax gap report: a work of fiction and guess work
HM Revenue & Customs have published this year’s tax gap report. If anything these reports get more ludicrous by the year. The methodology – much
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The Ebor Lectures: I’m in York to give mine, entitled ‘Jesus would cut the tax gap’ on 9 October
York St John University have just issued this press release: Richard Murphy, Director of Tax Research UK, will be the guest speaker at the next
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My speaking notes at the PCS fringe at Labour Party conference today
I spoke at the PCS fringe at the Labour Party conference in Brighton today. These are my speaking notes. The usual rules apply: start at
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The VAT Gap – 18% of EU GDP
The EU issued a summary of a new report today on the EU wide VAT gap that says: The VAT Gap across all 26 Member
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Benefit errors cost £1 million a day. Tax avoidance and evasion cost £260 million a day
The Daily telegraph is very vexed today that there are £1 million of benefit payment errors a day in the UK. To put this in
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In this parliament HMRC will lose 26% of its staff and £5.5 billion of its budget
The above numbers were quoted by Catherine McKinnell MP, shadow treasury secretary, at the ARC tax gap conference I attended this morning. The data is
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Why the tax gap is important – even if the Tories seem intent on ignoring it
I was at a debate in parliament this morning organised by the ARC union – which represents senior staff at HM Revenue & Customs. The
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