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• What do taxes pay for? -

  Ned Flanders offering his ever-optimistic views on tax.

• Tax Return Deadline -

  I came across a nice cartoon in The New Yorker.
  Exasperated couple surrounded by paper.
  “How long do we have to keep [...]

• Tax crackdown on football clubs -

  The magazine When Saturday Comes reports that in 2010 HMRC intensified its battle against tax avoiders in football with at [...]

• Discovery Assessments: Ho! Ho! Ho! -

  Discovery assessments may only be made in very specific circumstances.  The recent case of Ho v HMRC (UKFTT387) has hopefully [...]

• HMRC Discovery: new voyages -

  The recent cases of Hankinson v HMRC (UKUT361(TCC)) and Ho v HMRC (UKFTT387) add to the understanding of discovery assessments. [...]

• HMRC prosecutions -

  HMRC’s forms and certificates are littered with warnings that “False statements may result in prosecution” or similar. The reality [...]

• Tax evasion clampdown? -

  So George Osborne confirmed HMRC’s latest strategy to reduce the tax gap In last week’s 2010 Spending Review speech. [...]

• Naming and shaming: HMRC step over the line -

  A more stringent regime introduced as part of HMRC’s avowed intent to let the punishment fit the crime can impose [...]