It’s rare for Tax Research UK to host guest posts, but Naomi Fowler, producer of the Tax Justice Network Taxcast just produced the following blog for me and I’m delighted
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George Osborne has announced that he’s U-turned on the cap on charitable donations attracting tax relief for the rich. The cost will be £50 million of tax relief for the rich a year,
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I normally ignore Tim Worstall. So does almost everyone on the left, and for good reason: he’s a troll cheerleader saying little of worth, offering
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Andrew Goodall is a pretty seasoned tax journalist. He works for the Tax Journal. Like all good journalists he is not satisfied with first impressions, glib responses and being
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‘Why are they increasing the tax gap?’ is the title of my new report for PCS, published yesterday. As I say in the executive summary:
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I made this speech (or something very like it) at the PCS conference in Brighton this afternoon. My focus was, of course on the tax gap, but the big
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The Parliamentary Accounts Committee has issued a report saying it is not convinced by HMRC’s logic that sacking staff pays. It has said that if
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The Associated Press summary of the Parliamentary Accounts Committee report on the effectiveness of HMRC says: Job cuts among revenue officials meant GBP1.1 billion less unpaid tax was recouped than
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