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The CIOT has welcomed HMRC’s decision to wind down their Business Record Check (BRC) programme from 20 October 2015.

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 CIOT and ATT have recently responded to HMRC’s consultation document Income Tax: Extension of averaging period for farmers.

The article ‘Proposed refocusing of the enterprise investment scheme’ (Tax Adviser, May 2015) drew attention to the joint Treasury and HMRC publication in March of draft legislation and explanatory

The CIOT has written to the Finance Bill Committee commenting on clause 32 of the Finance Bill which will prevent corporation tax deductions, such as amortisation and impairment debits, for goodwil

The article ‘AIA – arithmetical intricacies?’ (Tax Adviser, September 2015) referred to the ATT’s submission of written evidence to the Finance Bill committee on clause 8.

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