The Public Accounts Committee has published a new report on the effectiveness of HMRC. Its chair, Margaret Hodge MP has said: There is at least £35 billion outstanding in uncollected
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The FT – and my “dangerous” work on the tax gap
The FT reported on HMRC’s rebuttal of my work on the tax gap yesterday, saying: Revenue & Customs slammed claims that tax-dodging costs the country £120bn
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I do hope HMRC are called before parliament to explain their misstatement of the tax avoidance gap
HMRC’s attack on my work on the tax gap is almost amusing in some ways. Amongst their claims is one that says total tax avoidance
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Why I include tax paid late in the tax gap
In HMRC’s response to my work on the tax gap, published by the Treasury Select Committee today, they say: Non-payment The figure for unpaid tax
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Can HMRC really say my work on the tax gap is ‘dangerous’?
I’ve just re-published HMRC’s new commentary on my work on the Tax Gap, published by the Treasury Select Committee. I suspect no one will be surprised to hear that I
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HMRC comment on my tax gap estimates, via the Treasury Select Committee
It’s not very often HMRC and Parliament dedicate a chunk of a publication to my work, but the Treasury Select Committee have done so this morning,
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Should tax be more taxing? My talk at the RSA today
I spoke at the RSA this lunchtime. I gather a video of the event will be available on line. The theme was ‘Should Tax Be
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HMRC say their vision is to close the tax gap – by sacking 10,000 of their staff
H M Revenue & Customs published their new business plan this morning. I got sent a copy by a friendly MP. They say their number
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The treasury admit that the tax gap is vastly bigger than they’ve ever previously said
The Treasury has released some very limited data for 2010-11 based on tax returns submitted which, they say, indicates the scale of tax avoidance they
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