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HMRC introduced new legislation requiring tax advisers who interact with HMRC on behalf of clients to register with HMRC and meet minimum standards.

HMRC confirmed that they will be introducing multi-factor authentication in HMRC’s agent update

Lindsay Scott (Technical Officer) gave evidence for the CIOT, alongside Stephen Boyle (Auditor General for Scotland), Dr João Sousa (Fraser of Allander Institute), Michael Clancy (Law Society of Sc

The Call for Evidence (tinyurl.com/3vpuptzy) sought views on the success of venture capital schemes such as the Enterprise Investment Scheme and venture capital tr

The CIOT highlights, and the ATT agrees, that all the Finance Bill measures aimed at tax advisers should be viewed together, and that the combined impact on compliant tax advisers should not be und

The Scottish government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities jointly published a consultation on the future of council tax in Scotland, alongside a research report composed by the Insti

The Scottish government introduced the Visitor Levy (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill on 6 January 2026 (‘the amendment bill’), to make amendments to the Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024 (‘the 2024 Act’)

HMRC increasingly relies on interest figures reported by banks and building societies to pre-populate customers’ records (although not self-assessment tax returns at present).

The online article in January’s edition of Tax Adviser (tinyurl.com/3z4jmy9c) set out the significant changes afoot for anti-money laundering (AML

Since the publication of the draft Finance Bill in July 2025, CIOT and ATT have engaged strongly with HMRC on all the agent-related measures.