by Claire Aston | Jun 14, 2024
At the end of the week of the political party manifestos for next month’s UK General Election, the TaxWatch team have been looking through the various pledges concerning tax from a compliance and administration lens and summarise our thoughts below. Labour Party All...
by Claire Aston | May 28, 2024
With last week’s announcement of a General Election on 4th July, the TaxWatch team have been looking at tax related pledges coming out of the main UK political parties. The first of note is the Conservative Party’s announcement of a new age-related Personal Allowance...
by Claire Aston | May 23, 2024
With yesterday’s surprise announcement of a UK General Election on 4th July, the current Parliament will be dissolved on Friday 24th May and now the ‘washup’ period begins. This means that bills which are part-way through their Parliamentary scrutiny are either...
by Claire Aston | May 23, 2024
HMRC is being elusive about the amounts due on specific offshore compliance penalties Either systems to track penalties don’t allow HMRC to evaluate effectiveness of specific initiatives, or this information is collated but FOI request was first declined and when...
by Claire Aston | May 16, 2024
The Treasury has this week announced extra funding of £51m for HMRC customer service, following the recent phone line u-turn debacle and admission by Jim Harra at the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) that HMRC isn’t resourced to provide the standard of service...
by Claire Aston | May 15, 2024
Multiple delays to the publication of the offshore tax gap statistics, now a full year late TaxWatch had to use FOI powers to discover that the new date for this work is now June 2024 (gov.uk still shows Autumn 2023) Data on which this will be based is from CRS...
