David Heaton reviews the history of recent power reforms and concluded that the new Government should put on the brakes
Some of us remember the Keith Committee and its effect on tax compliance activity. An independent committee chaired by a law lord deliberated for years in the early 1980s and made recommendations on the enforcement powers of the taxman leading to various changes in taxes management rules some of them significant spread over several Finance Acts.
There was a 'tax gap' that the chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue suggested in 1979 might be around 7½% of GNP. In a 1990 paper (SWP 3/91 Tackling Tax Evasion in the UK October 1990) David Parker (now Emeritus Professor) of Cranfield School of Management noted that the estimate was adopted by officialdom despite the suspicion (of others) that the number was 'little more...
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David Heaton reviews the history of recent power reforms and concluded that the new Government should put on the brakes
Some of us remember the Keith Committee and its effect on tax compliance activity. An independent committee chaired by a law lord deliberated for years in the early 1980s and made recommendations on the enforcement powers of the taxman leading to various changes in taxes management rules some of them significant spread over several Finance Acts.
There was a 'tax gap' that the chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue suggested in 1979 might be around 7½% of GNP. In a 1990 paper (SWP 3/91 Tackling Tax Evasion in the UK October 1990) David Parker (now Emeritus Professor) of Cranfield School of Management noted that the estimate was adopted by officialdom despite the suspicion (of others) that the number was 'little more...
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