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HMRC’s decision to close Covid fraud taskforce puts £5bn of taxpayers’ money at risk, MPs warn

Basit Mahmood
8 March, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

Billions of pounds won’t be recovered by the tax authority at a time when the government insists that it doesn’t have the money to give hard-pressed public sector workers pay rises.

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Two more Tory bosses caught up in tax dodging row

Basit Mahmood
31 January, 2023

“From the party chair sacked over his tax affairs to the party treasurer who took part in a tax avoidance scheme, Sunak is drowning in a swamp of sleaze.”

HMRC failed to collect £42bn in UK tax last year, MPs say

Basit Mahmood
12 January, 2023

“The eye-watering £42bn now owed to HMRC in unpaid taxes would have filled a lot of this year’s infamous public spending black hole”

A fall in tax investigations means HMRC lost out on £9bn, says watchdog

Basit Mahmood
16 December, 2022

While the Tories have been busy telling us that they can’t afford to invest more in public services, it’s emerged that a fall in tax investigations carried out by HMRC has cost the government £9 billion. The FT reports: “HMRCtest

Humiliation for the Daily Mail: Paper forced to change front page after government’s tax U-turn

Basit Mahmood
3 October, 2022

“Just LOOK how they changed their front page between edition”

Lis Truss speaking at her first PMQs

Downing Street hints there will be an ’emergency budget’ next week

Chris Jarvis
12 September, 2022

Plans for tax cuts are set to be announced

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Liz Truss wins support of economist who advised Thatcher and who got it spectacularly wrong on Brexit

Basit Mahmood
25 July, 2022

Minford claimed that leaving the EU without a trade deal would have boosted the UK’s GDP by 4%

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Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs under investigation by HMRC

Basit Mahmood
11 July, 2022

Revelations about the investigation are awkward for Zahawi, given that HMRC falls under the control of the treasury.

UK tax authority admits it’s clueless about how much tax is being evaded through offshore assets

Basit Mahmood
30 May, 2022

‘UK residents had £850bn in financial accounts overseas — of which £570bn was based in tax havens — in 2019, the latest year HMRC has released statistics for.’

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Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy criticised for ‘misleading statement’ defending her non-dom tax status

Basit Mahmood
7 April, 2022

Tax campaigners have been quick to point out that non-dom status is a choice individuals make rather than something that is automatically conferred as a result of nationality.

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