According to the Guardian: Luxembourg must move away from its reliance on hosting internal financing functions for multinational businesses if it wants to guard against
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£3,028 tax claim does not add up
According to the FT: Mr Cameron will use his Downing Street press conference to claim that Labour would put up taxes by £3,028 for every working
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Where was tax?
I watched, and tweeted, the Battle for Number 10 last night. Our next prime minister was interviewed and it seems almost everyone agrees Ed Miliband
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The 2014 Whole of Government Accounts paint a sorry picture of mismanagement by this government
The government has published the Whole of Government Accounts for the year to 31 March 2014 this morning. As they say of these: So, the
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Virgin NHS protests
Not for the first time in my career I find that my work has led to street protests. I admit that when I began working
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This Public Accounts Committee’s swan-song tax reports
The Public Accounts Committee for this parliament has published its swan-song tax reports. It’s good enough to share in full. It makes a compelling case
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The long term tax reforms that we need
This is the final part of my series on UK tax reforms (at least, for now). I would stress, I do not think this list
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Of course the number of staff at HMRC matters when it comes to collecting tax
This exchange from Hansard a couple of days ago is interesting: Kelvin Hopkins(Luton North) (Lab): The Treasury’s problems are, above all, about income, not expenditure.
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HMRC is making fewer demands for information to tackle offshore tax cheats
International Tax Adviser has given publicity to Pinsent Masons in their secondary role as HMRC’s press agency, noting; During the 2012-13 tax year, the Revenue
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