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A majority government, a radical new leader of the opposition, a new third party at Westminster, a new First Minister of Scotland. A lot has changed in British politics over the past year.

Every five years, or so, when the nation is about to go to the polls, politicians appear to become interested again in the question: ‘Should we really care about public attitudes to tax?’ Although

It was interesting reading Chris Jones’s President’s page in last month’s Tax Adviser on the challenge faced by ATT and CIOT in trying to protect the reputation of the tax profession and how we mig

The latest CIOT/IFS debate took place on Monday last week at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in central London and focused on ‘the politics of tax change’.

I am sure I am not alone in the range of perceptions about the UK tax system that I encounter regularly.

The great thing about tax is that it is constantly changing so there is never a shortage of topics to develop into training seminars.

In the first Budget of this year the then coalition government announced: ‘It would be asking the regulatory bodies who police professional standards to take on a greater lead and responsibility in

Are you bracing yourself for yet another January? If you are, have you paused to think how HMRC’s changes to digital services might affect you in the future?

Hidden at the back of the summer Budget is a brief announcement of a consultation on cutting business rates for local newspapers.

It is little over a year since the formal launch of social investment tax relief (SITR) in FA 2014, which introduced ITA 2007 Pt 5B and ss 255A–E and TCGA 1992 Sch 8B.