MPs urge the department to devise schemes to persuade people to put their tax affairs in order as annual revenue losses from evaders reach more than £2bn

English district councils spend £1 in every £3 of council tax revenue on gathering and disposing of household rubbish, figures obtained by the Guardian show. So, first be deliberately obtuse about the money. Council tax revenue is about 25% of total council revenue. So we’re really saying that about 8% of council revenue is spent on

The German government believes Britain should be part of a Europe-wide tax on financial transactions, the proceeds of which could help prop up the single currency. That’s the first silliness: there will be no extra revenue. The second is that the direct revenue, before the losses from other taxes as the economy shrinks, would be,

Probes into the tax affairs of large companies generated £12.6bn of additional tax in the last four years, making big business the most profitable target for the Revenue's compliance effort

So here’s an interesting little idea. Yes, we’ve a new report out from our retired accountant from Wandsworth today. About the huge amounts of tax revenue that are lost to governments as a result of the grey economy….the legal activities but illegal because they’re not paying tax, not the black economy which is illegal activities

Multinational companies are talking to Revenue & Customs about extricating themselves from tax planning structures that have backfired in the recession

Financial details of up to 50,000 people who claim tax credit are mistakenly sent out in the post by HM Revenue & Customs.

Taxpayers struggling with unexpected tax demands will not face interest charges on the money they owe, Revenue & Customs told MPs in its latest bid to defuse a row over payments of the wrong amounts of tax

Here's a summary of the effective marginal tax rates faced by the UK economy*: Commonsense tells us that if tax rates are high enough, the additional extra tax revenue generated by a further hike in rates is cancelled out by a corresponding fall in economic activity, or indeed straightforward tax evasion; a phenomenon known as The Laffer Curve. Nobody knows what the rate at the top of The Laf...

HM Revenue & Customs is coming under pressure to take more tax fiddlers to court amid fears that a steady decline in prosecutions is eroding the deterrence of fraud and evasion