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The CIOT has welcomed HMRC’s decision to wind down their Business Record Check (BRC) programme from 20 October 2015.

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

The CIOT and ATT have recently responded to HMRC’s consultation document Income Tax: Extension of averaging period for farmers.

The article ‘Proposed refocusing of the enterprise investment scheme’ (Tax Adviser, May 2015) drew attention to the joint Treasury and HMRC publication in March of draft legislation and explanatory

The CIOT has written to the Finance Bill Committee commenting on clause 32 of the Finance Bill which will prevent corporation tax deductions, such as amortisation and impairment debits, for goodwil

The article ‘AIA – arithmetical intricacies?’ (Tax Adviser, September 2015) referred to the ATT’s submission of written evidence to the Finance Bill committee on clause 8.

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.

Following a CIOT meeting in July with HMRC policy and HMT on the recent Finance Act 2015 changes to Entrepreneurs’ Relief (transfers of goodwill on incorporation, trading status of ‘management comp