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The roundtable was called at relatively short notice, just prior to the publication of the National Audit Office’s report ‘The administrative cost of the tax system’, published on 10 February (

HMRC has an anniversary this year as it is 20 years since it came into existence, having previously been two very different departments – the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise.

HM Treasury’s Spending Review representation portal is now open for submissions (www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SpendingReview25).

Dealing with last minute tax returns in January is always challenging and often takes priority over other areas of work.

Before I retired, most of my clients were companies and charities so, apart from a couple of large religious charitable trusts, the only income tax return I have dealt with in recent years is my ow

There was a great deal in the Budget documents, but one paragraph in the Red Book stuck out.

It might be an easy thing to overlook when we are busy pursuing our careers in tax, but even the busiest of us should pause to remember the beginning of our journey – when we first entered the

If an error or omission leading to a loss of tax is uncovered, a voluntary disclosure should be made to HMRC as soon as possible.

While we buy our Christmas pudding from Betty’s (a Yorkshire institution) and so no longer follow the Victorian tradition of Stir-up Sunday, like most families the Batty household has its own Chris

I could not find the original ‘road map’ online but I do have my own copy from the launch.