Anne Perkins wrote in the Guardian yesterday: Think what kind of country you want for you and your children and, even more importantly, think how
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A rare politician
I mentioned earlier this morning that I had been asked to make comment after a speech Jeremy Corbyn gave on the economy this morning. This
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The National Audit Office, the tax gap, HMRC and ‘other estimates’
The National Audit Office issued its report on the annual report of HM Revenue & Customs on Friday. It’s a good job it did as
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Technical support to Jeremy Corbyn
A little unexpectedly I have been invited to attend a speech Jeremy Corbyn is giving this morning and to then sit on a panel afterwards
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HMRC say it: tax avoidance is a choice
HMRC has published a new review of large business tax practice. This will reward some study, but page 10 provides a lot of support for
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Intentional poverty by design
This comes from the Guardian this morning, but since it comes straight from a press release I cannot find on the web as yet I
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HMRC’s falling way short of George’s expectations
As I have noted here, time and again, George Osborne has always made the most extraordinary assumptions about the growth in self assess income tax
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Where were the auditors? (Part 74 of a series, to be continued)
The Guardian has reported: Toshiba overstated its operating profit by 151.8 bn yen (£780m) over several years in accounting irregularities involving top management of the
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It is time to name the benefits cap for what it is: economic cleansing
This map shows the impact of the new, lower, benefits cap in the UK: What it makes clear, based on data from Shelter and published
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