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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The Tories are doubting HMRC’s tax gap data
I note the Telegraph is reporting that Tories are now doubting HMRC’s tax gap data: Michael Fallon, a senior member of the Commons’ Treasury Select
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The Tax Gap – getting worse even by HMRC’s appallingly inadequate measure
HM Revenue & Customs have published the 2010 version of the tax gap. It’s three months earlier than last year’s version and please don’t for
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Tackle the tax gap to keep people in work
I’ve just mentioned I spoke at the TUC this week — twice, actually. I’ve already posted what I said the first time. The second was
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Mervyn King backs closing the tax gap
From the Press Association: Bank of England governor Mervyn King has surprised trade unions by describing the huge banking bailout as "unfair" and has appeared
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Why are the right so frightened of the tax gap?
I was amused when debating the subject of the tax gap with Michael Fallon MP on Jeff Randall’s Sky TV programme last evening. Fallon tied
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The Tax Gap in The Times
It’s a shame the Times has a paywall because they’ve done a really good comparison on pages 4 and five today of the tax gap,
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The tax gap: why HMRC have to be wrong
My work on the Tax Gap is, I note, receiving widespread publicity (with, I know, more to come), and I’m aware that as a result
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