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Closing the Tax Gap – first reflections

Last week CenTax held our inaugural residential conference, “Closing the Tax Gap,” at the University of Warwick.

Around 100 delegates joined us across the two days, drawn from HMRC and HM Treasury, major firms and independent advisers, professional bodies, UK and international academics, and think tanks. Our aim was to broaden the debate on tax compliance in the UK by combining policy, administrative, technical, legal and academic perspectives that do not often share a room.

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NEWS RELEASE: Representation of the People Bill will not fix corporate donation loopholes – consider a ban to protect UK democracy, says independent report

Corporate political donations should be banned altogether because the Representation of the People Bill will not stop companies being used to funnel anonymous and foreign money into UK politics, argues a new report from the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation (CenTax).

They find that the current system fails to deliver transparency or prevent foreign interference, and that the Representation of the People Bill, currently being debated by parliament, will not fix these problems.

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