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September already! The busy season is coming to an end and the really busy season is about to begin! Chris Jones told me once: ‘You wait years to be President, and then it’s over in a flash’.

The new fiscal calendar now means that draft clauses are published and consulted upon over the summer.

No doubt the dust will have settled by the time you read this, albeit with lots of commentary and analysis in the interim, but England lost in the World Cup semi-final to Croatia.

By the time you read this, Tracy Easman will be President of the ATT and England will, VAR permitting, have done really well at the World Cup. I will also be ATT Deputy President.

Phew! August already, and what a summer it’s been! Amazing weather across the whole of the UK, the World Cup, Wimbledon and amidst another Brexit related Ministerial crisis, the Finance Bill 2019!

This is my last issue as editor-in-chief and perhaps fittingly it is also the 65th that I have been involved with.

Welcome to July. I hope that you are all enjoying a summer break or looking forward to one.

Where did the first half of the year go?

Hello to you all. Well, it seems like only yesterday I was sitting down to write my first page for Tax Adviser – and here I am a year later.

I stated last month that Making Tax Digital (MTD) articles were something of a staple diet when it comes to Technical Newsdesk, only to prove myself wrong