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Finance Committee

The CIOT made a submission in response to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament’s call for evidence on the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT).

We each have our own wishes, but in our day-to-day work one thing that we all want is an efficient, informative telephone service from HMRC. At the moment that is far from being provided.

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

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.

Since my last article ‘Working Together – the digital future’ (Tax Adviser, August 2015), progress has been made and the first digital Working Together meeting was held on 24 September 201

The CIOT and LITRG made submissions to four committees of the Scottish parliament in August.

Pensions tax is undergoing a generational transformation after recent radical Budgets. With it come challenges for scheme members, their advisers and employers.

Tax-transparent funds offer excellent possibilities for cross-border investing and the UK’s authorised contractual scheme (ACS) is the latest yet perhaps most carefully drafted addition.