Bill Dodwell | Tax Adviser

Bill Dodwell

Bill is the former Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification and Editor in Chief of Tax Adviser magazine. He is a past president of the CIOT and was formerly head of tax policy at Deloitte. He joined the Administrative Burdens Advisory Board in 2019. Bill won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tolley’s Taxation Awards in 2024 and writes in a personal capacity.

Spirit of the law

By Bill Dodwell | September 1, 2015

One of the interesting phrases used in the recent consultation, Improving Large Business Compliance, is ‘the spirit of t...

General Features

Management of taxes

Raising taxes

By Bill Dodwell | August 1, 2015

Slowly the word crept out that there would be a great deal in the summer Budget – although details of the content remain...

General Features

Large Corporate

OMB

Personal tax

The interest ratio

By Bill Dodwell | July 1, 2015

One action from the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project – Interest Restrictions (action 4) – potentially a...

Large Corporate

Loss relief limits

By Bill Dodwell | March 1, 2015

Seasoned observers of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg point out that there was a high-water mark in deciding...

International Tax

Large Corporate

Wrong sort of dividend

By Bill Dodwell | June 1, 2015

Judge Colin Bishopp has just given his decision in a case about ‘rate boosters’.

Large Corporate

Coalition tax

By Bill Dodwell | May 1, 2015

As we reach the end of the coalition government, a review of the tax policy changes over past five years can centre on s...

General Features

A focus on saving

By Bill Dodwell | April 1, 2015

The final Budget of any parliament is always a political occasion, when chancellors set out some of the issues they wish...

Large Corporate

OMB

Personal tax

General Features

CIOT's Vice-President's page

By Bill Dodwell | March 1, 2015

I’m writing this article at the end of another week full of political and media stories on tax avoidance and tax evasion...

Welcomes

Shifting interests

By Bill Dodwell | February 1, 2015

The OECD’s action plan to counter base erosion and profit shifting is in full flow.

International Tax

Large Corporate

Finance Bill amendment

By Bill Dodwell | May 3, 2013

Clause 4, page 2, line 19, at end add— ‘(4) The C

Large Corporate