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Finance Committee

The CIOT made a submission in response to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament’s call for evidence on the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT).

We each have our own wishes, but in our day-to-day work one thing that we all want is an efficient, informative telephone service from HMRC. At the moment that is far from being provided.

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 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

Are you bracing yourself for yet another January? If you are, have you paused to think how HMRC’s changes to digital services might affect you in the future?

Since my last article ‘Working Together – the digital future’ (Tax Adviser, August 2015), progress has been made and the first digital Working Together meeting was held on 24 September 201

Have you been dusting off your owner-managed business spreadsheets recently? There have certainly been many changes this year that require advisers to work out the maths.