6 February 2019

Billionaires avoid paying and even talking about tax! Take the wealth off the 1%

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman went viral by putting the cat among the pigeons at billionaires get together Davos in Switzerland recently

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22 August 2018

Strategic discussion needed after pay ballot

PCS activists have been shocked by the launch of a new group set up to campaign for Janice Godrich against incumbent and Socialist Party member Chris Baugh as the union's AGS.

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22 February 2017

Argos fails to pay staff minimum wage - taxman cuts fine in half!

Retail giant Argos has recently been caught red-handed paying 37,000 workers less than the national minimum wage.

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8 February 2017

Workplace news in brief

Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including DWP closures, Picturehouse strike and Deliveroo walkout.

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16 November 2016

Socialism 2016: Putting socialism on the agenda

Struggle, internationalism and socialism, these ideas - and how powerful they can be in action - electrified the magnificent rallies and workshops at Socialism 2016

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16 November 2016

Super-rich investigated

One third of 'high net worth individuals' are under investigation by HM Revenue and Customs, says the National Audit Office.

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12 October 2016

Suicidal phone calls: fight to reverse tax credit cuts

Concentrix, a private US firm used by HM Revenue and Customs to cut tax credit payments, has been receiving suicidal calls from claimants - as a result of losing their payments thrusting them deeper into poverty.

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5 April 2016

Panama Papers: they're all in it together!

Anonymous shell companies, foundations and trusts revealed in the 'Panama Papers' have been likened to "getaway cars" for the high-end criminal. You load up the swag and put your foot down. On second thoughts, drive as slowly as you like - the cops are in on it.

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30 March 2016

Fighting the great tax robbery: taxes and regulation or socialist nationalisation?

Tax avoidance has been in the headlines lately, provoking renewed calls to tax the rich and big business

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29 October 2015

Them & Us

High street retail group Monsoon Accessorize was caught paying more than a quarter of its UK store staff below the minimum wage

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22 September 2014

Tax evasion spirals to over £80bn a year

The cost of tax evasion to the economy spiralled to more than £80 billion last year, according to new figures for the Public and Commercial Services union

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13 January 2014

PCS protest against tax office closures

Public and Commercial Services union representatives will demonstrate outside HM Revenue and Customs' Whitehall headquarters tomorrow (14 January) ahead of a decision on tax office closures

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21 June 2012

Revenue staff to strike on Monday

More than 55,000 revenue staff are set to strike on Monday 25 June over massive cuts that will seriously undermine any efforts to clamp down on the kind of tax avoidance schemes used by comedian Jimmy Carr, the Public and Commercial Services union says...

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6 December 2007

Grayscale

PAUL GRAY, the chief civil servant at the centre of the missing child benefit computer discs, was widely praised for 'doing the honourable thing' by resigning his top post at HM Revenue and Customs....

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29 November 2007

Mass scrutiny needed to protect our rights and privacy

What we think: "A MASS movement is needed to tackle the state's snoopers" read a headline in the Observer newspaper...

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29 November 2007

Data loss - no surprise to HMRC staff

ON 18 October, two discs containing the personal details of 25 million people were lost by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)... By A PCS union member in HMRC

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