“New £2.6bn tax compliance crackdown can’t work if existing tools are barely being used”: TaxWatch Budget analysisThe Budget’s third-largest tax pledge relies on a UK tax authority that is suffering from recruitment delays and unfinished IT systems. Just 26 of 6,700...
HMRC tells MPs it doesn’t know how many large businesses it’s investigating for tax fraudOn 18 May, MPs quizzed senior HMRC officials about how they’re making the biggest multinational companies pay their due taxes. HMRC officials confirmed TaxWatch’s findings...
The best spent money in Whitehall?New figures show that HMRC’s efforts to make taxpayers pay the right tax brought in £22 for every £1 spent last year. That’s exceptional value for money. Nonetheless beneath the headline numbers there’s a more...
MPs ask tough questions about closing the tax gapOn 13 January, Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee grilled HMRC’s chief and senior staff about their efforts to tackle tax avoidance, evasion and tax debt. MPs referenced TaxWatch research and investigations in...
HMRC tells MPs it doesn’t know how many large businesses it’s investigating for tax fraudOn 18 May, MPs quizzed senior HMRC officials about how they’re making the biggest multinational companies pay their due taxes. HMRC officials confirmed TaxWatch’s findings...
