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As many expected, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement proved to be rather a ‘non-event’ from a tax policy perspective. The Statement still provides important context, however.

I had been working in tax for around 20 years when I attended an International Tax meeting. At some point, I casually mentioned that the UK’s personal tax year ends on 5 April.

Supply chain transformation – the strategic redesign of how goods are sourced, produced, moved and delivered – has become a board-level priority for multinational businesses over the past decad

And this new tax year is rather a special one: at long last, we have reached the official start date for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax.

• 12,029,168 self-assessment returns were expected.
• A total of 11,489,825 retu

Partial exemption is one of the trickiest and most misunderstood areas of VAT. It governs how much VAT a business can recover and sits at the crossroads of compliance and complexity.

On the public policy front, our teams, led by Ellen Milner and Emma Rawson, have been actively engaged in making representations on the Finance Bill.

One of HMRC’s stated ambitions for the introduction of MTD is to reduce taxpayer error and mistakes under Self Assessment.

In some ways, though, wishing tax compliance practitioners Happy New Year in February feels wholly appropriate.

I joined the CIOT in November 2025, after 18 years in practice at BDO, mostrecently as a director heading up the Liverpool tax team.