Asked why he took no steps to pass on the allegations contained on the so-called Swiss disc, Dave Hartnett, HMRCs then head of tax, said: HMRC is asked to provide an indication of reputational risk for appointments of peers in relation to their tax compliance history only.
Date: Feb 10, 2015
Category: Business
Source: Google
Guardian: why the public should know of Swiss bank's pattern of misconduct
. The then head of the U.K. tax authority, Dave Hartnett, told an accountants gathering in 2011 that most Swiss-accountholders were suspected tax-dodgers: Potentially innocent people are relatively small in number maybe no more than 20% of U.K. residents investing in Switzerland. He told parliament
Listing a series of failings, Mr Justice Nicol said the then head of HMRC, Dave Hartnett, had been wrong to take into account the potential embarrassment to the chancellor, George Osborne, if the settlement, worth up to 20m, did not go through.
Date: May 16, 2013
Category: Business
Source: Google
The sinister HMRC investigation of the Goldman Sachs whistleblower
the fact that the non-executive board is drawn exclusively from senior business people, many from the big four firms of accountants? Would it have happened if a culture of facilitating and cooperating with big business had not been introduced by the former permanent secretary for tax, Dave Hartnett
Documents leaked to Private Eye magazine and published in full by the Guardian record that Britain's top tax official, HMRC's permanent secretary Dave Hartnett, personally shook hands on a secret settlement last December.