HMRC’s tax evasion figures are wrong, says report
The evasion figure is almost four times HMRC’s estimate and rising.
The evasion figure is almost four times HMRC’s estimate and rising.
The following was published by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) this morning.
I was rummaging through various links today and came to the UK Foreign Office White Paper on the Overseas Territories published in June 2012. This contains, on page 14, the following interesting statement in a section headed ‘Our Constitutional Relationship’.
So, cutting taxes just makes the rich richer. And that’s it. And since we know inequality harms society these tax rates, it follows, are harmful to us all – the rich included.
Richard Murphy from Tax Research UK proposes a new Tax Justice Consensus to replaced the predominant ideas of the Washington Consensus.
Carl Packman reviews Richard Murphy’s new book, “The Courageous State”, and finds it to be an ambitious defence of the role of the State in the world today.
James Leppard writes on why Richard Murphy is the most influential left-winger of the year.