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Engagment with HMRC and other policy makers

We have had a number of recent interactions with HMRC including:

We have had a number of meetings including:

The summer Budget announced proposals to extend the ‘use and enjoyment’ rules to prevent VAT avoidance.

We have been asked to consider the application of the rules regarding ‘pre-registration VAT’ on assets held when a business is first registered.

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’.

The CIOT and ATT responded to HMRC’s ‘Call for evidence into the use of Deeds of Variation for tax purposes’.

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