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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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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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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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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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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I’ve been noting some questions I’d be asking of selected taxpayers if I was a tax inspector. The first two, asking about cash payments to
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The Guardian notes: Thousands of taxpayers were overcharged in 2009-10 by HM Revenue & Customs, which collected an "unacceptable" £238m too much tax as a
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I mentioned yesterday that I though I should  suggest some enquiries I thought HM Revenue & Customs should make to root out the cash economy
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From the Guardian, this morning: Working for the Public and Commercial services Union and using HM Revenue & Customs data, I estimated tax evasion in
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