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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.

Dame Meg Hillier moved from chairing the Public Accounts Committee in the last Parliament to chairing the Treasury Committee in this Parliament.

The year 2025 was one of tough fiscal choices and global disruption. In the UK, the Budget was the most obvious focal point – and one of the most anticipated in recent years.

In October 2014, I co-authored the former Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) report on the competitiveness of the UK tax administration.

What came through loud and clear was your desire for balance.

A ‘family office’ enables a family to outsource the management of its wealth holding structures, and other administrative or strategic functions, to a trusted group of advisors or individuals.

Any tax-raising Budget will have losers and, as economists note, the optimal way to raise taxes is to apply wide measures to the broadest base.

On 21 October, the government announced major reforms to the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) supervision framework.

Traditionally, chancellors disappeared from public view for at least a month before Budget Day, re-emerging only on the Sunday before the Budget to appear on political TV programmes.