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The big black cloud
Brexit hung over this year’s party conference season like a big black cloud. For pro-Europeans it portended storms ahead and blanketed everything beneath it in a suffocating gloom.
Celebrating 20 years of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
Issues for low income taxpayers
This year marks the 20th anniversary since the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) was set up by John Andrews (then President of the CIOT) as an initiativ
All that glistens
Every child knows that a gold medal is the top Olympic award and a gold star marks the highest classroom achievement.
Following around the world
As many readers will be aware, a Follower Notice (FN) can be given where the ‘principles or reasoning‘ in a relevant judicial ruling would, if applied to the taxpayer’s chosen arrangements, deny hi
A badge of honour
It was a small gesture, but I like to think that I am not the first woman to have entered the offices of HM Treasury wearing a badge with the words ‘No vote, No tax’ around the image of a ship at s
One year on
It has now been a year since I was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General.
Cleansing of Funds
The provisions dealing with cleansing mixed funds contained in an offshore bank account are set out in Finance (No.2) Act 2017 Schedule 8 Part 4.
Spring is sprung
My father always used to greet Spring with a little nonsense ditty that started ‘Spring has sprung, the grass is riz…’.
Pension Freedom
It has been three years since the over 55’s were handed new freedoms to allow them to spend up to 100pc of their pension fund as they choose.
