As the Telegraph (a paper I’m liking more and more now Sean O’Hare is working for it) has reported: The US pledged yesterday to participate in the Extractive
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HMRC have been issuing massively misleading reports that the tax gap fell by £7bn last year. It didn’t, and I have explained why here. Using
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I’m going to repeat the HMRC tax gap table just published:                            
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I now have details of the 2011 tax gap estimates, based on the tax year 2009-10. The table looks like this: This is in itself
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All you need to know about HMRC have got their tax gap calculations wrong is explained here.

I wrote this blog last September but it remains just as relevant now, so I will repeat it given that HMRC are continuing to massively
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HMRC issued the following press release today: The tax gap is the difference between the tax in theory that should be collected by HMRC and
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The following was announced this morning on TechRadar: Play.com, one of the UK’s biggest e-tailers, has announced that it is to be bought by Rakuten, a Japanese
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Larry Elliott has summed up what the IMF said yesterday rather pithily: The IMF has plenty of advice for those running the global economy. It
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