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24 Jun 22
The 2020-21 ‘tax gap’ – the estimated difference between the amount of tax expected and the amount collected – was £32bn, according to HMRC.
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10 Feb 22
Public bodies owe an estimated £260m in tax, after they were given insufficient time to adopt changes to employment regulations, according to the National Audit Office.
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17 Sep 21
Fraud accounted for almost half of the tax lost in 2019-20, which is a much bigger problem than previously thought, a think tank has said.
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9 Jun 21
The changes to global taxation agreed by G7 finance ministers could see the UK’s receipts from digital firms reduce by more than £230m, according to tax experts.
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4 Jun 21
Ahead of next week's G7 summit, Alex Dunnagan, researcher at Taxwatch, outlines the potential prize from an agreement on a minimum corporation tax rate.
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14 May 21
The Supreme Court has allowed a group of local authorities to pursue a claim for business rates against landlords who transferred properties to special purpose vehicles, in a case which could result...
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20 Mar 20
The government is facing renewed calls to stop the “injustice” of the so-called loan charge - the collection of historic tax avoided through ‘disguised remuneration’ schemes, which has so far led to...
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13 Mar 20
The chancellor has delayed planned changes to a tax credit the government had previously identified as being subject to fraud.
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9 Mar 20
MPs and HM Revenue & Customs have found themselves in a standoff over the ‘loan charge’, a controversial result of the government closing a tax loophole that has left freelancers with mammoth...
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21 Oct 19
Almost three-quarters of the UK government’s strategic suppliers operate in tax havens, a damning analysis has found.
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5 Dec 18
The HMRC has been accused of causing taxpayers considerable distress as it prioritises the recovery of tax revenue over justice, according to a group of Lords.
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3 Aug 18
Online retail giant Amazon’s UK tax bill reduced last year despite higher profits, which has been called “shameful and wrong” by a union head.
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16 Nov 17
Tax avoidance is “utterly and totally immoral and wrong” and is “damaging public services”, the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for responsible tax has told the...
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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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11 Apr 16
The government has launched a cross-Whitehall taskforce to investigate 700 leads on possible tax evasion following the publication of leaked papers from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca.
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22 Oct 15
Latest figures from Revenue & Customs have found the tax gap in the UK stood at £34bn in 2013/14, around 6.4% of all revenue due.
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8 Apr 15
Labour would abolish the non-domicile tax status that allows some UK residents to avoid paying tax on all of their income, Ed Miliband has announced.
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6 Feb 15
MPs have accused PwC of ‘nothing short of the promotion of tax avoidance on an industrial scale’ after examining the role of large accountancy firms in advising multinational how to minimise...
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31 Oct 14
There is growing evidence of the corrosive effects of profit shifting by multinational companies
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4 Jun 04
From time to time, evidence of invisible people and invisible jobs appear on the government’s radar screen: when the Census didn’t make sense, when cockle- pickers died in Morecambe Bay....