Today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee hasn’t so much been released as detonated onto the Westminster
scene. The Exchequer is owed around £25 billion, it suggests, from major companies that have been handled too leniently, or just plain wrongly, by HM Revenue & Customs. And much of the
blame is attached to Dave Hartnett, the outgoing civil servant in charge of revenue collection.
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