The Government’s plan to launch a new tax whistleblower scheme raises a number of questions – and it’s not clear how many have been fully thought through, writes David Whiscombe.
Providing useful information to the authorities has a long history. Had it not been for an informer (anonymous but reputedly one Francis Tresham) Guy Fawkes might well have succeeded.
The attitude of the tax authorities to whistle-blowing has changed and developed over the years.
When the writer joined the Inland Revenue almost 50 years ago the backbone of the department was a network of hundreds of local tax offices up and down the country. Almost every town of any size boasted its own office and larger cities had several. Each was run pretty much autonomously by a District Inspector an autonomy positively celebrated in the title of the Inland Revenue’s graduate recruitment brochure of...
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The Government’s plan to launch a new tax whistleblower scheme raises a number of questions – and it’s not clear how many have been fully thought through, writes David Whiscombe.
Providing useful information to the authorities has a long history. Had it not been for an informer (anonymous but reputedly one Francis Tresham) Guy Fawkes might well have succeeded.
The attitude of the tax authorities to whistle-blowing has changed and developed over the years.
When the writer joined the Inland Revenue almost 50 years ago the backbone of the department was a network of hundreds of local tax offices up and down the country. Almost every town of any size boasted its own office and larger cities had several. Each was run pretty much autonomously by a District Inspector an autonomy positively celebrated in the title of the Inland Revenue’s graduate recruitment brochure of...
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