Accountancy Age reports: The National Audit Office (NAO) has found the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) spent £154m in 2006-07 to identify an estimated
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HM Revenue & Customs improving tax recoveries
CCH have issued a press release, which seems to have been posted in full on AccountingWEB, saying (in part): HMRC has raised £415.3 million through
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The Tax Gap: I’m sorry, we haven’t a clue
Hansard reports the following: Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his Department’s estimate of the tax gap is; and what
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One third of the UK’s largest companies pay not tax
Vanessa Houlder has a tax article on the front page of the FT today. In it she reports that one third of the UK’s 700
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We can tackle inequality
The Guardian is doing well with its blogs today. Seamus Milne has a great one on the growing poverty gap in the UK. As he
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Why won’t HMRC talk about the Tax Gap?
Accountancy Age has reported that: The government should release its estimates of the tax gap to make tax avoidance and evasion less socially acceptable, the
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