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14 Oct 19
CIPFA has lined-up a stellar panel of speakers for its Central Government Summit at the end of November.
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4 Oct 19
The government is facing calls to halt its ‘loan charge’ policy introduced to reclaim about £3.2bn of avoided tax, after it was linked to seven suicides.
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2 Aug 19
The UK will create up to 10 ‘free ports’ after Brexit in an attempt to boost ‘left behind areas’ of the country, the government has announced.
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22 Jul 19
CIPFA member Sir Jon Thompson will take over as chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council in the autumn, the government has announced.
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19 Jul 19
HMRC missed its target for reducing fraud and error in personal tax credit overpayments last year, the public spending watchdog has said.
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11 Jul 19
A change of culture is necessary to tackle public sector fraud and corruption, counter fraud experts have urged.
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24 Jun 19
Uncollected tax jumped to £35bn in the UK last year but campaigners have warned this figure “vastly underestimates” the scale of tax avoidance.
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24 Jun 19
The government has swiftly brought in measures to stop a renewable energy sector VAT fraud - one of a range of scams costing EU states an estimated €50bn each year.
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4 Jun 19
Technology developed by HMRC has reversed a growing trend of phone scamming, the government has said.
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29 Apr 19
The quango that investigates and prosecutes serious fraud and corruption in England, Wales and Northern Ireland needs to be more focused and speed up.
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25 Apr 19
Through diligent, collaborative investigation, the HMRC Criminal Taxes Unit managed to crack a long-term money laundering case. Simone Rensch explains.
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5 Apr 19
New powers enabling the Welsh Government to set the rates of income tax payable by people in the region have come into effect.
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1 Feb 19
Reviewing the UK’s tax relief bill should be a central part of this year’s Spending Review, a think-tank has urged.
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3 Jan 19
Reforms to wealth taxes could help fund the rising cost of public service provision, a think-tank has said.
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5 Oct 18
The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has written to the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs concerned only a “fraction” of online fraud VAT was being clawed back.
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28 Apr 17
Government plans to sell off surplus property and land owned by HMRC will not raise as much money as expected, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
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6 Apr 17
The contract between HM Revenue & Customs and business services firm Concentrix to investigate tax credit awards was a “catastrophic failure” and lessons need to be learned, MPs on...
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6 Mar 17
A real-time online system will collect tax return information automatically and manage irregular incomes better. Could it also make a local income tax viable?
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27 Jan 17
The government has been accused of appearing soft on the super-rich by employing dedicated personal advisors to help high net worth individuals manage their tax affairs, the public accounts committee...
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17 Jan 17
The company contracted by HMRC to help reduce fraud and error in tax credits claims, Concentrix, regularly failed to meet its performance targets, according to an investigation by the National Audit...
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10 Jan 17
HM Revenue & Customs has admitted that a multi-million pound project to reduce the costs of running its estate is “unrealistic”, according to the National Audit Office.
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31 Oct 16
The government could save as much as £2bn by 2020 by digitising services and transactions but progress is being held back by a lack of political drive from the top, including from prime minister...
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17 Aug 16
The government has confirmed today it will seek to clamp down on accountants, tax planners and advisers who help their clients to bend the rules and avoid tax.
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15 Apr 16
Revenue & Customs must do more to tackle the perception that it does not take on tax fraud by the wealthy, a report by the Public Accounts Committee has stated.
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25 Feb 16
Ministry of Defence permanent secretary Jon Thompson is to take the helm as chief executive at Revenue & Customs in a leadership shake up.
14 Oct 19CIPFA has lined-up a stellar panel of speakers for its Central Government Summit at the end of November.
4 Oct 19The government is facing calls to halt its ‘loan charge’ policy introduced to reclaim about £3.2bn of avoided tax, after it was linked to seven suicides.
2 Aug 19The UK will create up to 10 ‘free ports’ after Brexit in an attempt to boost ‘left behind areas’ of the country, the government has announced.
22 Jul 19CIPFA member Sir Jon Thompson will take over as chief executive of the Financial Reporting Council in the autumn, the government has announced.
19 Jul 19HMRC missed its target for reducing fraud and error in personal tax credit overpayments last year, the public spending watchdog has said.
11 Jul 19A change of culture is necessary to tackle public sector fraud and corruption, counter fraud experts have urged.
24 Jun 19Uncollected tax jumped to £35bn in the UK last year but campaigners have warned this figure “vastly underestimates” the scale of tax avoidance.
24 Jun 19The government has swiftly brought in measures to stop a renewable energy sector VAT fraud - one of a range of scams costing EU states an estimated €50bn each year.
4 Jun 19Technology developed by HMRC has reversed a growing trend of phone scamming, the government has said.
29 Apr 19The quango that investigates and prosecutes serious fraud and corruption in England, Wales and Northern Ireland needs to be more focused and speed up.
25 Apr 19Through diligent, collaborative investigation, the HMRC Criminal Taxes Unit managed to crack a long-term money laundering case. Simone Rensch explains.
5 Apr 19New powers enabling the Welsh Government to set the rates of income tax payable by people in the region have come into effect.
1 Feb 19Reviewing the UK’s tax relief bill should be a central part of this year’s Spending Review, a think-tank has urged.
5 Oct 18The chair of the Public Accounts Committee has written to the chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs concerned only a “fraction” of online fraud VAT was being clawed back.
28 Apr 17Government plans to sell off surplus property and land owned by HMRC will not raise as much money as expected, the Public Accounts Committee has warned.
6 Mar 17A real-time online system will collect tax return information automatically and manage irregular incomes better. Could it also make a local income tax viable?
27 Jan 17The government has been accused of appearing soft on the super-rich by employing dedicated personal advisors to help high net worth individuals manage their tax affairs, the public accounts committee...
31 Oct 16The government could save as much as £2bn by 2020 by digitising services and transactions but progress is being held back by a lack of political drive from the top, including from prime minister...
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