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It was interesting reading Chris Jones’s President’s page in last month’s Tax Adviser on the challenge faced by ATT and CIOT in trying to protect the reputation of the tax profession and how we mig

The latest CIOT/IFS debate took place on Monday last week at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in central London and focused on ‘the politics of tax change’.

I am sure I am not alone in the range of perceptions about the UK tax system that I encounter regularly.

The great thing about tax is that it is constantly changing so there is never a shortage of topics to develop into training seminars.

In the first Budget of this year the then coalition government announced: ‘It would be asking the regulatory bodies who police professional standards to take on a greater lead and responsibility in

Are you bracing yourself for yet another January? If you are, have you paused to think how HMRC’s changes to digital services might affect you in the future?

Have you been dusting off your owner-managed business spreadsheets recently? There have certainly been many changes this year that require advisers to work out the maths.

At a recent ATT/CIOT members’ tax conference, the professional standards team from Artillery House, which was running a session on professional standards, was asked about auto-enrolment.

Just before the summer break I had the privilege of signing more than 300 letters congratulating our students on passing their final papers in the May CTA exams and the June ADIT exams.

I’d no sooner stored away my quill and closed my ink well and here I am again to assail you with some news and thoughts.