I admit I have never been on strike. That is very largely because I have been self employed for 30 years and the need never
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When I began working on tax there were only two available descriptions of tax behaviour. They were tax avoidance and tax evasion. There was no
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A month ago I wrote that HMRC’s claimed ‘compliance yield’ was, to be polite, pretty much made up. The National Audit Office put it more
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The National Audit Office’s report on HMRC’s 2013-14 accounts includes some pretty damning commentary on its work in closing the tax gap – or increasing
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This chart comes from a National Audit Office publication issued today as a result of their review of HMRC’s 2013-14 accounts. I cannot as yet
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This is the 11,000th post on this blog. And despite rumours to the contrary, I do have a life.

I noted this morning the importance of the word ‘nuance’. I wrote that before seeing Ed Miliband’s speech this morning, which I now have. If
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Nuanced is an interesting word.  Nuance is, of course, a noun meaning ‘a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound’ whilst nuanced
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Suppose you were asked to choose a target for an international campaign on tax avoidance. Who would you pick? That was a question I was
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