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UK tax advice market needs urgent reform: TaxWatch’s new report highlights dangers of unregulated advisers and calls for change
TaxWatch launches new report illustrating the damage that a lack of regulatory oversight causes taxpayers seeking help to comply with their obligations & advocating for urgent widespread reform.
Curiously incurious: HMRC’s failures on tax evasion
The latest report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) paints a concerning picture of tax evasion in the UK retail sector. It highlights significant gaps in enforcement, underestimated scale of evasion, and a worrying decline in prosecutions. The report raises significant concerns about HMRC’s seemingly incurious approach to the scale of tax evasion.
Transforming Tax: HMRC’s digital and compliance revolution under scrutiny
A new report released today shows that HMRC’s costs are rising, but questions their efficiency and approaches to digitisation and compliance.
Late filing penalties where no tax is due: time for a different approach?
HMRC levy over £100m of penalties for late filing on 1.1 million individuals many of whom won’t owe any income tax. Such a policy is bad for our tax regime overall and undermines trust, it needs to change.
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