The World Bank has issued a new paper providing measures for the size of the “shadow” economy in 162 countries. The UK is one of
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Let’s get serious – the tax gap is big – and sometimes a little bit of it is collected
It’s become mildly fashionable in right wing circles to have a pot shot at my estimates of the tax gap. Mark Field MP was the
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Common ground with John Redwood?
Perhaps the most surprising attendee at the PCS drop in session I’ve just blogged was John Redwood MP. If you read the report of the
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The savagery of Richard Murphy’s blog
One last comment from Hansard on yesterday’s debate on the tax gap, where the following was said as the debate concluded: John McDonnell: This has
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The tax gap in parliament
From Hansard yesterday (edited): John McDonnell: The debate was about how to resolve the deficit that has arisen as a result of the credit crunch
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The Office for Tax Responsibility
The Office for Budget Responsibility is in a mess. The government’s finances are in a mess. The most obvious solution for solving the mess —
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Benefit fraud is 624 times more serious than tax evasion
The tax gap from evasion is, give or take the odd billion or so, £70 billion at present. The total tax gap is about £120
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Tax avoidance is part of the tax gap – so let’s move on
The far right have always liked to argue that my work on the tax gap is wrong because I categorise tax avoidance as part of
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What is the tax gap?
Tax Research agrees with the definition of the Tax Gap produced by the Large Business Services of HM Revenue & Customs in 2005, reproduced
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