According to the Guardian: May’s principal aim is to finally get agreement on the knotty issue of customs, solving the problem of the Irish border.
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The UK’s VAT gap – my evidence to the Treasury Committee
I gave evidence to the EU parliament last week on the VAT tax gap. This morning our parliament has published evidence I submitted to them
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VAT fraud: my presentation to the EU parliament this morning
I have already noted the information I supplied on VAT fraud in advance of the hearing of the Tax3 Committee of the EU Parliament that
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The scale of EU tax fraud
I am presenting evidence to the EU Parliament’s Tax3 Committee this morning on VAT fraud. In advance of the hearing the Committee asked for my
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The IFS has a duty to tell the truth about VAT, and it isn’t
I posted this as long ago as 2010. I am reposting it because in essence nothing has changed in the UK on this issue since
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Let’s talk VAT and Brexit, because it’s time we faced reality
No one wants to talk about VAT. I once turned that to my advantage: early in my career I did a lot of lecturing on
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Questions needing answers from HMRC
The relentless Richard Allen, whose campaigning has already changed UK VAT law to stop tax abusers using the Channel Islands, wrote a briefing for the
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VAT and Brexit: the imperative of staying in the customs union
As the Guardian has reported this morning, the House of Lords has voted by a large majority to indicate that it would wish the UK to
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