According to The Guardian (18 April 2014), Treasury minister David Gauke is overseeing controversial plans to allow HMRC to sell taxpayers’ details to private companies, a move that has been criticised as ‘borderline insane’ by senior Conservative MP David Davis.
The Law Society Tax Law Committee provides five recommendations on HMRC’s ‘judge and jury’ tax powers
For private clients, this Budget was ‘one of the most disturbing of recent times’, writes Robert Field.
In Treasury minutes, the government disagreed with all nine conclusions of the Public Accounts Committee on HMRC tax collection in the PAC’s 34th annual report. The following points are particularly worth noting.
Bill Dodwell writes that much of the PAC’s recent report on HMRC sees the committee drift away from evidence-based findings to opinion
The Public Accounts Committee has published a highly critical report of HMRC’s tax collection abilities. Among many of the criticisms of the department, the report stated that HMRC ‘collected less tax in real terms [last year] than it managed to collect in 2011/12’.
David Whiscombe considers the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Cotter.
Paul Aplin on the aspirations for HMRC
‘Big brother’ concerns are misplaced, says Tim Buckingham of Eversheds via Lexis®PSL Financial Services