HM Revenue & Customs’ accounts continue to bemuse me. I mentioned some of its strategic objectives yesterday, and the baffling assessment it has offered with
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I couldn’t have said it better myself
From the Morning Star: Trade unionists have accused David Cameron of using benefit fraud as "cover for swingeing cuts to genuine claimants." Speaking last week
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HMRC say 51.6% of UK taxpayers are willing and able to pay their taxes
As noted yesterday, HM Revenue & Customs have dispensed with their annual report this year as the Cabinet Office say they don’t need one and
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HMRC’s accounts: saving £124 million to increase the tax gap by £2.3 billion
As I noted yesterday, the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs have decided not to publish an Annual report on their performance this year. We’re going
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HMRC fail to report – is it because they don’t want to talk about the tax gap?
From the Observer this morning: Ministers have been accused of reneging on commitments to open government after it emerged that HM Revenue and Customs had
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US – transfer pricing abuse is rampant
As I’ve noted this morning — South Africa is worried it is suffering transfer pricing abuse to exploit tax arbitraging. So too is the USA.
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The IRS knows that the tax gap is offshore
It has become very fashionable to argue that there is no corporate tax gap. The quite absurd claim that Deloitte proved there was none of
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The UK shadow economy – proving the tax gap is as big as I claimed
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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