Government Tax Profession

Peers urge chancellor Philip Hammond to drop plans to extend the window in which HMRC can investigate taxpayers’ affairs if they had some tax dealings outside the UK

Institute for Government says department has to put officials’ accountability at the heart of new review

Cabinet Office-based post is ‘a high-profile role at the centre of key strategic decision making’

Concerns over statutory work as hundreds of civil servants are redeployed

Any move to add regulatory functions onto the work of departments would require assurances over the independence of oversight, says think tank

Public Accounts Committee chides department for not going ahead with police funding formula review despite agreeing re-examination was needed

With no evidence to support the claim that benefit sanctions help get more people into work, the committee said they were 'nothing other than arbitrarily punitive'

Transport committee approves fomer airport chief as rail regulator chair

Response to select committee provides an update on how government is responding to liquidation of major outsourcer

FCO honours staff association co-founder who left “an important legacy to LGBT+ diplomats”

Cabinet Office admits its initial bid to fill “probably the biggest and most important security job in the UK today” was "unsuccessful"

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