Tax risk
Press watch: Barclays 'risks backlash'
‘Barclays has been warned that its reputation is being "tarnished" by the persistent use of "complicated financial structures" to boost…6 Feb 2012
Anti-avoidance legislation figures
David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said that to remove any doubt about a tax avoidance scheme's effectiveness, legislation…1 Nov 2011
HMRC defend tax gap estimates
Estimating the tax gap provides an important tool in understanding the causes of non-compliance and helping HMRC to focus on…13 Sep 2011
Large businesses enquiries: HMRC qualifies £25bn estimate
More than £25 billion of tax was ‘under consideration’ in HMRC’s Large Business Service (LBS) enquiries at 31 March 2011,…4 Jul 2011
Large businesses say HMRC ‘could do more’ to improve service
Most large business ‘customers’ of HMRC continue to be satisfied with the overall service provided by the department, according to…4 Jul 2011
Tackling ‘high risk’ tax avoidance: consultation
Proposals to counter the marketing and use of ‘high risk’ tax avoidance schemes – still used by a small but…31 May 2011
Tackling avoidance: Government urged ‘not to lose sight of evasion’
The government’s efforts to tackle tax avoidance are ‘quite understandable’ but evasion and other criminal activity have a ‘far greater’…25 Mar 2011
Plant and machinery leasing: anti-avoidance measure
An ‘aggressive’ tax avoidance scheme putting ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ of tax at risk was blocked with effect from…14 Mar 2011
Tax gap debate: Measuring the cost of avoidance
The public will not wear the ‘overly aggressive pursuit of lower tax bills’, David Gauke told the Hundred Group of…9 Mar 2011
Gauke invites business to address tax avoidance debate ‘myths’
Businesses should consider engaging ‘more forthrightly’ in the tax avoidance debate to address ‘some of the myths and confusion that…1 Mar 2011
‘Disguised remuneration’ measures to be relaxed
Deferred bonus arrangements meeting certain conditions are to be excluded from proposed measures to tackle income tax and NIC avoidance…22 Feb 2011
MPs call for greater transparency over tax disputes with large companies
There is ‘little transparency’ for the taxpayer over the way that tax disputes with large companies are resolved, the Commons…3 Feb 2011
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