PAC report: HMRC must ensure it is never easier to cheat the tax system than comply  

Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:01

- Tax compliance yield down by £9 billion over the 2 years of pandemic   - Likely that many more non-compliant taxpayers will escape paying their fair share of tax undermining sense of fairness  - HMRC cannot demonstrate a credible deterrent effect of its tax-compliance work  In response to the emergency of the pandemic, HMRC redeployed more than 4,000 compliance staff to work on the government's new COVID support schemes. As a result, total tax...Request free trial