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In keeping with the Spring Statement’s status as not being a fiscal event, no new tax announcements were made by the Chancellor.

Either way, we are now well into the spring, and I’m writing this on the afternoon of the Spring Statement – something I simply would not have had time to do under the previous fiscal calendar.

If I were to pick two highlights of 2017 from an employment taxes perspective they would be the publication of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices (“the Taylor Review”) and the judgement

Welcome to March everyone. I am writing this article in what is forecast to be the coldest week of the winter so far, so I hope that when you read this, spring will have bloomed for us all.

There are a few topics I’d like to touch on this month but let me start with an encouraging development from HMRC in relation to the behaviours they expect from all tax agents.

At this time of year I am sure I’m not alone in spending time reflecting both on the year gone by and to look forward at how tax changes may affect my clients.

Well, if that wasn’t enticing enough, we have decided to run a series of ‘spotlights’ on the work of our various sub-committees (not to be confused with HMRC’s spotlights on tax avoidance schemes!)

Particularly eagle-eyed readers of Technical Newsdesk will see that, although we normally provide a summary of the submissions we have made (as set out in the list in the table at the end), there i

Well here we are, another January deadline has passed. I hope it was as stress free as possible for our members who work in compliance.

In my President’s page for the August 2017 issue of Tax Adviser, I talked about how narrow and limited