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One of the spin-off benefits of the Budget is that it gives us the opportunity to have a broader look at the UK tax system, armed with up-to-date reporting and forecasting.

The recent wave of media coverage on artificial intelligence (AI) following the launch of ChatGPT and other ‘generative AI’ programs poses some interesting questions for the future of indirect tax.

Readers will no doubt be aware that VAT in the UK celebrated its 50th birthday this year, having first been introduced when the UK joined the European Economic Community in 1973.

VAT and mixed supplies is a hotbed topic that has probably perplexed HMRC’s policy teams more than most other issues.

After the tax rises from the 2022 changes, the Spring Budget reduces tax by about £13 billion in 2023-24 and each of the two years’ after.

As is well known, the whole point of the Northern Ireland Protocol was to prevent a hard border on the Island of Ireland, separating the UK from the EU as a result of Brexit.

VAT is now 50 years old. That is an impressive milestone.

Farm diversification is, by definition, alternative land use – the supply of land for activities such as the provision of stables, the hire of riding schools and dog walking areas.

In the more than 30 years that I have been in the tax profession, certain types of business have been seen as likely candidates for an old-fashioned ‘back duty’ investigation.

There are not very many tools in the inheritance tax planning toolbox.