ARC report – making HMRC a world class tax authority

The Association of Revenue and Customs (ARC) the union that represents senior civil servants in HMRC held a parliamentary launch event in mid-March to mark the publication of its report Funding the Nation: Optimising HMRC (tinyurl.com/arcreportftnoh). Many of the report’s themes were picked up in the plenary speech by Loz Hutton (president of ARC) before the session opened out into a Question Time style panel event chaired by Sir Edward Troup former permanent secretary at HMRC with contributions from Lord Leigh of Hurley (chair of the House of Lords’ Finance Bill Subcommittee) and tax law professor Judith Freedman.

The report itself remains focused on the changes required to make HMRC an effective tax authority both in terms of collecting the tax that is due and in being a vital part in a functioning economy making evidence-based recommendations to improve its performance for...