I note a story from a couple of days ago that has spun in all sorts of weird ways. UK accountants Hacker Young have suggested
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The FT has reported this morning that: US tax authorities are targeting cross-border finance deals worth billions of dollars between leading US and UK banks
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I wrote the following at the request of the Brighton Evening Argus for publication after the close of the UK Uncut trial in that city, in which I appeared as an expert
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I thought it would be useful to highlight the incredibly small sample base of HMRC’s tax gap data for direct taxes, published this weak. As I have explained at length here,
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I am well aware that ministers and HMRC’s senior management like to say my criticism of their tax gap figure is misplaced. After all they say, admitting
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HMRC have been issuing massively misleading reports that the tax gap fell by £7bn last year. It didn’t, and I have explained why here. Using
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I’m going to repeat the HMRC tax gap table just published:                            
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I now have details of the 2011 tax gap estimates, based on the tax year 2009-10. The table looks like this: This is in itself
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All you need to know about HMRC have got their tax gap calculations wrong is explained here.