As I’ve noted, the EU’s now issued a coherent strategy for tackling tax evasion and tax avoidance that it is asking the member states to adopt. There
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Is this meant to close the tax gap?
HMRC’s beginning an ad campaign to close the tax gap. I gather it will look like this: Is that really the best they can do.
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No government that creates a 5.5% tax rate for multinational companies is committed to social justice
OK, I accept it's fairly obvious Seamus Milne of the Guardian and I have been talking when reading his column this morning but what the
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The FT says HMRC’s tax gap report is a work of fiction
I’ve just commented on the ludicrous nature of the HMRC estimate of tax evasion included in this year’s tax gap. I’m pleased to note that I’m not
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HMRC’s estimate of tax evasion in the shadow economy is ludicrously low
HMRC’s new tax gap report is a gift that just keeps on giving. Take this: Ghosts and moonlighters 6.39 ‘Ghosts’ are individuals who receive income
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Why HMRC’s tax gap still makes no sense
I admit I have not the time or energy this afternoon to spend a lot of time on HMRC’s new tax gap data. I’ve already
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According to HMRC over just 5 years UK small business got 31% more honest. How likely is that?
The latest tax gap data from HMRC offers some amazing statistics. Take this table on the dishonesty in the tax returns of self employed people
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PCS illuminating the Tories
My friends at PCS were in action last night – illuminating Tory Party HQ: They know there’s a choice: they could tackle the tax gap.
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The Times realises tax avoidance costs vastly more than HMRC says it does. Why do ministers deny it?
The Times has said today: H M Revenue & Customs believes that personal tax avoidance costs the economy $4.5 billion a year. The exposure of the Liberty tax scheme suggests this
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