George Crozier

George Crozier, Head of External Relations at the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Association of Taxation Technicians and Low Incomes Tax Reform Group

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@Ray_McCann55 Reading the article, these seem to be the salons that employ people rather than renting out chairs. The survey suggests most are now considering switching to the self-employed model and has a quote suggesting that ‘disguised employment’ is rife in the sector and set to get worse.

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Hi @jamesowild. Congratulations on your appointment as Shadow Exchequer Secretary. Can you confirm this means you are shadow minister for tax and that you'll be leading for the opposition on the Finance Bill?

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@aliceolilly Single fiscal event though. (and congratulations!)

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Can the Conservatives ever again be the party of low tax? That’s the topic of discussion for the ThinkTent at #CPC24 Looking forward to an interesting discussion

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Shadow Foreign Sec Andrew Mitchell among speakers at a fringe meeting on economic crime.
Says UK has accepted dirty money for a long time. CDOTs - Closed registers of BO was not enough. Panama papers etc showed you needed to see the dotted lines. Sunlight is the best disinfectant

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Tom Clougherty of @iealondon said property taxes structured properly can be economically benign but not Britain’s. He cited SDLT and BRs. We have incredibly narrow VAT base. 20% VAT on ALL consumption wd not be popular in isolation but we cd afford to scrap IHT, CGT, SDLT…

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Attended a great standing-room-only discussion on tax an hour ago courtesy of ⁦@spectator⁩. Forgot to take a picture so here’s one of the conference centre. #cpc24

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He also attacked the complexity of the tax system: Simplification - complexity of doing business here v hard. Let’s try to minimise those taxes putting great traction into the economy, pivot onto simpler, flatter, consumption based tax system.

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In Birmingham for Conservative Party Conference. First up today a meeting organised by ⁦@TheCityUK⁩ and ⁦@ConHome⁩. Shadow treasury minister ⁦@GarethDavies_MP⁩ among the panellists fielding questions on financial crime, venture capital among other topics. #cpc24

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I asked James what the thinking is behind him chairing HMRC’s Board? He told me it’s about getting HMRC focused on the new government’s agenda.
What is that agenda?
3 HMRC priorities - closing tax gap, improving customer service, modernising ( digitisation).

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Day 3 at #LabConf24 and it’s time for a debate on tax reform with @jamesmurray_ldn @YuanfenYang Arun Advani and @robertnpalmer

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Economic Secretary @TulipSiddiq was part of a City UK / New Statesman discussion this morning on how to get inclusive growth and in particular the role financial and professional services can play. Role of skills and reforming the apprenticeship levy significant in this #Lab24

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Interesting to hear @RachelReevesMP reaffirm manifesto tax commitments and recruitment of additional HMRC compliance personnel in her conference speech. XST @jamesmurray_ldn will chair HMRC’s Board, which sounds a strong statement of intent on improving HMRC’s performance #lab24

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At #LabConf24 in Liverpool. Fringe debate on ‘Taxing polluters not taxpayers’ with @liambyrnemp and others. Liam says UK needs to be a pioneer in how we use carbon taxes internationally.

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Good to be at a fringe cosponsored by @taxinparliament on corruption and dirty money with speakers including @edwardlucas, Lord Wallace of Saltaire and Susan Hawley of Spotlight on Corruption. @LibDems #LDConf

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It’s that time of year again: party conference season. Talking tax this week with the Lib Dems in Brighton (it’s sunny) before joining Labour in Liverpool and the Conservatives in Birmingham. You can read my pre-conference thoughts at https://t.co/TYhD2qB99W #libdems

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What are the chancellor’s tax options for the forthcoming Budget? Enlightening discussion at ⁦@resfoundation⁩ this morning with ⁦@JudithFreedman⁩ ⁦@nickmacpherson2⁩ and RF’s Adam Corlett. Something of a consensus that we’ll see CGT rate increase.

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@margarethodge Congratulations Margaret. I look forward to hearing your contributions in the upper House.

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@josephpowell Excellent news! Look forward to working with you and the group in the new Parliament Joe