George Gillham and Siobhan Gillespie (Fieldfisher) assess HMRC’s track record.
In the pre-Brexit pre-Covid days of the David Cameron government in 2013 our current Prime Minster then Director of Public Prosecutions stated that the goal of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was to increase the number of prosecutions for tax evasion by a factor of five from the baseline set in 2010.
As a result of this pronouncement we have annually tracked and reported on HMRC’s somewhat erratic progress towards this goal ever since. HMRC has never quite reached it. Part of this has been due to unforeseen events such as the Covid-19 epidemic. Part of it has been due to changing priorities in the world of tax collection. But other changes in society and HMRC policy have essentially rendered HMRC’s initial goal unnecessary and it...
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George Gillham and Siobhan Gillespie (Fieldfisher) assess HMRC’s track record.
In the pre-Brexit pre-Covid days of the David Cameron government in 2013 our current Prime Minster then Director of Public Prosecutions stated that the goal of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was to increase the number of prosecutions for tax evasion by a factor of five from the baseline set in 2010.
As a result of this pronouncement we have annually tracked and reported on HMRC’s somewhat erratic progress towards this goal ever since. HMRC has never quite reached it. Part of this has been due to unforeseen events such as the Covid-19 epidemic. Part of it has been due to changing priorities in the world of tax collection. But other changes in society and HMRC policy have essentially rendered HMRC’s initial goal unnecessary and it...
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