Siobhan Kennedy
HSBC bosses face tough questions at Westminster
HSBC’s two bosses, Stuart Gulliver and Douglas Flint, are about to be appear in front of the Treasury select committee. But what of former chairman Lord Stephen Green?
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4m
Football clubs raided in tax fraud probe
The football clubs Newcastle United and West Ham United’s grounds have been raided in a fraud investigation, resulting in several arrests.
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FactCheck: Cameron vs Miliband – the dodgy claims to watch out for
David Cameron and Ed Miliband make their big pitch to the nation tonight. Don’t want to get taken in by the spin? Read this first.
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Siobhan Kennedy
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FactCheck: benefits fraud vs tax evasion
Does this government deal with tax dodgers as robustly as benefits cheats? FactCheck finds out.
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Siobhan Kennedy
More questions than answers over the HSBC tax scandal
There were more questions posed than answers given today in connection with HSBC. Why, for example, did HMRC not tell anyone it received a file with allegations against the bank in 2010?
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Alex Thomson
Rangers, tax and ‘no surrender’?
You can’t really complain about a shadow over Rangers and the effect on the club’s value when the club itself has broken the rules.
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FactCheck: Did MPs cherry pick the HMRC’s tax avoidance figures?
A damning report from MPs accused HMRC of “losing its nerve” on tackling tax avoidance. The taxman has hit back, accusing MPs of using the figures misleadingly. Who is right?
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Michael Crick
Puzzle of Ukip leader Nigel Farage’s offshore trust
Nigel Farage cultivates the image of being a normal bloke who says what ordinary people are thinking. But how many people set up an offshore trust on the Isle of Man to try to avoid tax?
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Siobhan Kennedy
Google in the hot seat – but HMRC feeling the heat
Matt Brittin, Google’s boss in northern Europe, will be showing a humble face in front of MPs this morning. But it is the taxman who should face the toughest questions.
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Alex Thomson
HMRC and the ‘Big Tax Case’: no victory yet except for the lawyers
With rumblings of discontent over the relationship between HMRC and the media, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at the latest status of the Rangers “Big Tax Case”.
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FactCheck: Are the PM’s tax claims avoidance or evasion?
The PM claims he’s given tax collectors an extra £900m. All well and good, but FactCheck finds he’s actually taken more away.
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FactCheck Q&A: Spotlight on the black economy
“What the government isn’t saying today is something many economists agree on: a black market in services produces benefits to the economy as well as costs.”
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: the taxman will not walk away
Today’s the day the taxman, in the shape of HMRC, said not only will he not be walking away from Rangers, but that they, the HMRC, “are the people”. And the people not only want their money back from this catastrophically mismanaged “football club”, but now they want to come after the men who reduced the once proud name of Ibrox to a pathetic byword for toxic governance.
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FactCheck: Has HMRC been spared from the cuts?
“This is what the government means when it talks about ‘increased staffing levels’ – that the cut is not quite as deep as first envisaged.”
