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My congratulations to all new incoming members and also to those who have recently passed the ADIT examinations and can become an ADIT Aff

The Labour Party made it clear in its manifesto that it was ‘committed to one major fiscal event a year, giving families and businesses due warning of tax and spending policies’.

The roundtable was called at relatively short notice, just prior to the publication of the National Audit Office’s report ‘The administrative cost of the tax system’, published on 10 February (

HMRC has an anniversary this year as it is 20 years since it came into existence, having previously been two very different departments – the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise.

HM Treasury’s Spending Review representation portal is now open for submissions (www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SpendingReview25).

Dealing with last minute tax returns in January is always challenging and often takes priority over other areas of work.

Before I retired, most of my clients were companies and charities so, apart from a couple of large religious charitable trusts, the only income tax return I have dealt with in recent years is my ow

While we buy our Christmas pudding from Betty’s (a Yorkshire institution) and so no longer follow the Victorian tradition of Stir-up Sunday, like most families the Batty household has its own Chris

I could not find the original ‘road map’ online but I do have my own copy from the launch.

And, if charity starts at home, we should think of the tax charities. Despite calls for simplification, our tax system gets ever more complex.