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Shadow chancellor says Labour would ‘ramp up’ number of HMRC staff to close gap between what is owed and paidUK politics – latest updatesThe shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said proposals to close the tax gap to fill a hole in her spending plans is not “rocket science”.Reeves was forced to respond after Jeremy Hunt used his budget to adopt some of Labour’s revenue-raising...

The drop in civil inquiries by fraud unit sparks criticism that the authority’s use of its powers of enforcement are waningThe number of civil investigation cases opened by a HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) fraud unit investigating offshore, corporate and wealthy taxpayers has fallen by more than half in five years, figures reveal.The Observer reported last month that HMRC has not charged a single...