The tax gap was raised on BBC 1’s Question Time programme ten days ago. And it got on again last week — with explicit reference
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Greece needs more than a tax amnesty
Greece has announced a tax amnesty to collect tax revenue. And it has been widely condemned. Greece has a massive shadow economy — about 29.5%
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Beat tax dodgers – sign the petition
38 Degrees is a great online campaigning organisation. As they told me in an email this morning: Dear Richard, Thousands of us have decided what
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Cuts, the Tax Gap and Government Priorities
Chartered accountant Richard Lupson-Darnell has written to his MP about the proposed cuts at HMRC and their impact on the tax gap. I commend his
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‘Making Pensions Work’: making the cuts a political choice, and not a necessity
The Finance for the Future’s report ‘Making Pensions Work’ when combined with my work on the tax gap shows that there is now an alternative
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The tax gap on BBC’s question time
My work on the tax gap, with the Tax Justice Network was referred to on BBC’s Question Time last night. Watch here. Started at 43.00
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What the Tax gap looks like
The Tax Gap involves big numbers. They’re disputed numbers at that. I do not agree with HM Revenue & Customs on the size or composition
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LibDem boost for HMRC: I don’t believe it – because they’ll actually be cutting spending by £2.1 billion
In possibly the most lacklustre speech ever made by a minister to a party conference Danny Alexander has announced HM Revenue & Customs is to
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Incorrect tax returns aren’t the exception – they’re normal
Listening to LibDems today you’d think that tax gap is a marginal issue. It isn’t. These are tables from the HMRC report on the tax
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