Preserving a nation
What do a rare mineral specimen, a portrait of Frederick Howard the 5th Earl of Carlisle by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a c...
Management of taxes
Management of taxes
Paper tiger or hidden dragon?
In the May 2016 issue of Tax Adviser, I wrote about the Court of Appeal’s criticism of HMRC’s handling of an appeal bein...
STARs beware!
Serial tax avoiders beware There have been numerous salacious stories over the past few years about celebrities, footba...
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Set your alarms
HMRC has an ongoing agenda to tackle all forms of ‘non-compliance’.
Holiday homes on the range
Business Property Relief is a particularly valuable relief in the context of inheritance tax.
Mr and Mrs
My article in the July 2017 issue of Tax Adviser made reference to a recent decision of the Family Division conce...
Constant change
As my husband observed: ‘If you are going to update a tax book, do it quickly’.
Taken to task
Since their launch in 2011, more than 140 HMRC taskforces have been set up to identify and investigate individuals and b...
Gulliver's travails
After HMRC’s onslaught in the first decade of this century on taxpayers who claimed to have been non-UK resident, I alwa...
Building a defence
The new corporate criminal offences for failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion, expected to come into force from...