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Whittling away at tax debt

At this time of year, I often see carved wooden nativity scenes at craft markets.

Age features in many tax research studies as an impacting factor on people’s tax-paying behaviour, but it is also increasingly becoming a complicating factor in practical tax affairs as populations

As another Christmas approaches, we all know that is a reminder of another significant tax return deadline that we have to meet.

And then there were… the Paradise Papers! I wasn’t sure I wanted to write about them since it is hard to think of anything particularly original to say.

As we approach the January deadline, getting things off our to-do list and passing them back to our clients as quickly as possible can be a tempting prospect.

It’s the time when my children (now teenagers) seem to forget they’re growing up and still look forward opening the windows on the advent calendar – no doubt motivated by the sliver of chocolate wh

On 13 July 2017, after representations from many professional bodies and stakeholders (including CIOT, ATT and LITRG), the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mel Stride, announced a relaxation in

In September 1962, seven years before they put a man on the moon, US President John F Kennedy gave a speech at the Rice Stadium about his plans to reach the moon, and the technology they would need

For some of us, the rhythm of the year is punctuated by our half-yearly pilgrimages to Cambridge and Warwick Universities for the spring and autumn CIOT residential conferences.

Now here’s a puzzling thing

At a party conference season four months after a general election, the party that won that election (most votes, most seats, forming the government) hardly men