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"Whistleblowers who inform #HMRC about tax-dodging will get a cut of any money collected as a result, the government confirmed, as Rachel Reeves announced plans to raise an extra £1bn a year by closing the “tax gap”. Reeves vowed to collect £6.5bn a year by cracking down on #TaxAvoidance, which is legal, and #TaxEvasion, which isn’t."

#UKPol #Labour

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Tax avoidance whistleblowers will earn share of HMRC proceeds, says ReevesBy Rob Davies

"#Labour hopes to boost the public coffers by billions of pounds with its crackdown on #TaxAvoidance and #TaxEvasion. But prosecutions of the enablers of tax evasion have plummeted by at least 75% in the past five years, with fewer than five criminal cases in 2023-2024."

#UKPol #Tax

theguardian.com/business/2025/

The Guardian · Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five yearsBy Edward Siddons

The IRS is drafting plans to cut its WF of🚨90K by as much as half.

"A reduction in force of tens of thousands of employees would render the IRS “dysfunctional."
J Koskinen, a fmr IRS COMR.

Trump will require Americans pay their taxes, while he, his family, & the oligarchs won't be investigated for #TaxEvasion, #MoneyLaundering, #Corruption...

Customer service/enforcement⬇️-many tax payers will choose to not file returns, so⬇️💰to pay for fed govt programs...

#USPol #IRS
apnews.com/article/irs-doge-la

AP News · The IRS could halve its 90,000-person workforce, sources sayBy Fatima Hussein

A TSY Dept anti-💰laundering rule requiring shell cos. to disclose their owners beneficiaries is gutted. The rule was part of the Corp Transparency Act -part of a push by the Biden admin to crack down on corp. cronyism & tax evasion. A multi-agency project is gone bc the admin enriches #oligarchs. Musk’s DOGE orchestrated the firing of >6K IRS agents in the middle of tax season.

#TaxEvasion, #MoneyLaundering & #Corruption are apparently legal under #Trump.

#USPol #Resist
rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Rolling Stone · ‘Exciting News’: Trump Brags About Gutting Anti-Money Laundering LawBy Nikki McCann Ramirez

Via #Reuters @ 12:01pm ET on Feb 14, 2025

#Italian prosecutors are investigating e-commerce giant #Amazon, and three of its executives over alleged #TaxEvasion worth 1.2 billion euros ($1.26 billion), two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.
News of the investigation broke last year, but the details over its extent emerged on Friday, first reported by the Italian daily #CorriereDellaSera.

reuters.com/technology/italy-i

why governments are broke: it's the billionaires and multinational companies not paying taxes

youtube.com/@garyseconomics is highly studied economist #LSE #oxford #UK
he made his cut at #citibank just to find out that he is surrounded by psychopaths that threatened him not to quit, he says the ONLY way to get out of this shit is if the poor team up and show the rich they are not taking it anymore: #taxevasion by the billions, #politicians are massively lobbied by #finance industry to keep things as corrupt as they are now

#china does not accept such #bullshit

#caymen #panama #taxes #taxjustice #wtf #cmon #fixthis #catastrophe #finance #money #economics of #madness

"- Tax Dodge: Most working Americans have to pay Medicare taxes, but some of the richest figures on Wall Street have found a way to opt out, a ProPublica investigation found.

- Accidental Loophole: Nearly 50 years ago, Congress tried to fix one financial abuse but unwittingly created an obscure loophole that these billionaires exploit to avoid Medicare taxes.

- Battling Abuse: The IRS only recently got tough on people it viewed as abusing the loophole, but it is unclear if the agency will be able to end the practice."

propublica.org/article/medicar

ProPublicaHow a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
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