article_snippet: Margaret Hodge, chair of Public Accounts Committee, said HMRC needs to come down hard on companies who use artificial overseas offices to avoid tax, and the firms that advise artificial overseas offices .
article_snippet: Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee must also do more to challenge the accountancy firms which help these multinationals to dodge Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee liabilities, Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee will say.
article_snippet: Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee and a Labour MP, said: ‘We remain concerned that HMRC’s relationship with these large accountancy firms is too cosy, and HMRC needs to get much tougher in challenging the advice these large accountancy firms give to these large accountancy firms clients.
highlights_snippet: Chair Margaret Hodge said harsher penalties are needed for those caught .
  