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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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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It’s been revealed that the UK’s national accounts for 2009-10 include tax bad debt of £10.9 billion. I found this interesting. That’s because, as regular readers will
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The Telegraph reported yesterday that: People who receive cash-in-hand payments for goods and services are harming the economy, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
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David Callahan has written a  blog under the above title on the Reuters web site. As he notes, the simple fact is that around the world deficits are largely
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One of the US readers of this blog, Kenneth Thomas, who writes the Middle Class Political Economist blog, wrote the following and I reproduce it with his permission as it
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I am delighted that readers of Left Foot Forward voted Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, their ‘progressive of the year’. As Left Foot Forward have
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One of the perpetual obsessions of the right wing of politics is law and order. It is they argue the fundamental duty of the state to defend
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Interesting commentary from Andreas Whittam Smith in the Independent this morning, who says: What are people angry about? The deepening recession? Yes. The high level of
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