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...
by Claire Aston | Apr 25, 2024
TaxWatch published an article in Taxation magazine last week about the launch of the Funding the Nation report by ARC, the union for senior staff within HMRC. The report identifies changes required to turn HMRC into a world class tax authority after years of...
by Dr Pete Sproat | Mar 28, 2024
HMRC delaying publishing data on use of tax avoidance schemes Increased civil action likely only containing total number of schemes at best Evidence suggests no criminal prosecutions of promoters of tax avoidance in last five years £1m penalty charged on a promoter...
by Claire Aston | Feb 28, 2024
40% reduction in civil servants defined as ‘tax professionals’ from 2016 to 2023 The overall HMRC workforce has shrunk since 2010, despite the challenges of the department’s workload increasing as the tax regime has become more complex Salaries paid to senior HMRC...
