The tax mountain
As an entry in the record books Britain’s tax code is not, perhaps, the outstanding achievement we might want to claim....
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Tales of missed deadlines
Self assessment (SA) has teeth. Just after the 31 January filing deadline, practitioners will be all too aware when the ...
Flag it up!
It is nothing new for criminals to use tax advisers and accountants to hide the source of their funds....
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Mortgage lenders – verification of income for clients
Members regularly feed back to us the problems they have when assisting clients with mortgage applications....
Thick and fast
From a slow start, auto-enrolment registrations are progressing thick and fast.
Public attitudes to tax – who cares?
Every five years, or so, when the nation is about to go to the polls, politicians appear to become interested again in t...
Steady as she goes?
A majority government, a radical new leader of the opposition, a new third party at Westminster, a new First Minister of...
Taxes on knowledge
Hidden at the back of the summer Budget is a brief announcement of a consultation on cutting business rates for local ne...
Social incentive
It is little over a year since the formal launch of social investment tax relief (SITR) in FA 2014, which introduced ITA...
Cutting-edge tax
Last December the CIOT’s outgoing President, Anne Fairpo, called for more attention to be paid to the academic study of ...