I’ve just referred to this morning’s Observer editorial, which in turn references my 2008 report for the TUC, The Missing Billions. It has for some time been sport amongst
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The tax gap – the Treasury Select Committee misses the point
The Treasury Select Committee is issuing a report in the morning on the tax gap. I gave evidence at the hearings that resulted in this
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David Gauke and the tax gap – a man with his head firmly in the sand
I was very amused to meet David Gauke in London today. He has long avoided such a meeting, but when we walked slap bang into
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Why is the Sun prioritising benefit fraud when the tax gap is 100 times bigger?
Left Foot Forward has blogged that it would have been great to report today that: The Sun has today launched its campaign against tax evasion,
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Tackling the EU’s €1 trillion tax gap – my full report now available
My full report on why I think the EU has a €1 trillion tax gap, and how I suggest it should be tackled is now
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The EU tax gap – new evidence shows there is €1 trillion of lost revenue to target to save our futures from despair
The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament issued a report at their press release this morning, part of which dealt with the EU
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The EU tax gap – €1 trillion a year
The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament are holding a press conference right now. The notice says: Today S&D Leader Hannes
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Factsheet – The Tax Gap
Shamelessly inspired by the new fact sheets on the False Economy blog, here’s one of my own on the Tax Gap: You can download it
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Want to know why HMRC bad debt was £10.9 billion? Simple: they sacked the debt collectors
It’s been revealed that H M Revenue & Customs’ bad debt in 2009-10 was £10.9 billion. According to HMRC’s accounts the provision was £10 billion in
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