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On the public policy front, our teams, led by Ellen Milner and Emma Rawson, have been actively engaged in making representations on the Finance Bill.

One of HMRC’s stated ambitions for the introduction of MTD is to reduce taxpayer error and mistakes under Self Assessment.

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.

Since the Budget, there has been much debate over whether Rachel Reeves and the Labour government have breached their manifesto pledge not to raise income tax.

When VAT replaced purchase tax in 1973, following the UK’s entry into what was then known as the European Economic Community (the forerunner of the European Union), we were assured that it woul

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

In my October 2020 article ‘On the way to the forum’, I looked at an unsuccessful judicial review claim reported as R (oao Boulting) v HMRC [2020] EWHC 2207 (Admin).