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tax gap

Tackling the tax gap
Who’s the target?

The 2012/13 tax gap was £34bn, or 6.8% of tax liabilities, according to newly released HMRC figures, which show a small rise on the £33bn (6.6%) in the previous year (revised down from an initial £35bn).

Revised data for previous year means a fall of just 0.1%

It is time for a general tax amnesty

Criticism and praise for the Tax Justice Network's Richard Murphy
MIKE TRUMAN considers both sides of the argument about the tax gap
'It is obvious the tax gap cannot even be properly defined, let alone quantified'

ED HAGGER explains how HMRC calculate the tax gap and why a campaigner’s alternative estimation is misleading

Union to warn MPs against spending review plans
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