I had this article on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site yesterday and in the paper today: George Osborne is making political capital out of
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What’s really needed at HMRC
I note there’s a report in the Telegraph today saying big business is so unhappy with HM Revenue & Customs that 20% of them are
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More on whistle blowing
I wrote a blog a few days ago on whistle blowing and tax, based on an email received from an informed commentator. Response to the
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Ed Miliband turns the heat on Clegg
Left Foot Forward has reported that Ed Miliband has written to Nick Clegg saying: During the election campaign you made much of the Liberal Democrat
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Let’s tackle the tax gap once and for all
This article by me has just been published on Comment is Free: We have a financial crisis in the UK. It was not caused by
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Time for whistleblowing?
Some comments on this blog deserve wider attention. At most it seems that 10% of those reading the blog ever read the comments. The following
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HMRC’s managers join the tax gap campaign
The First Division Association is the union for all the UK’s most senior civil servants: the Association of Revenue & Customs its division for the
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Deserving a mention – to show the unthinkable is now thinkable
I’m not sure I buy into this by Greg Philo and in yesterday’s Guardian yet, largely because it is probably too simplistic, but it has
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Any coincidence?
From the Guardian’s letters page this morning: I note that £238m of PAYE was overpaid in 2009-10, up 148% on the previous year. This couldn’t
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