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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 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).

Over the last 25 years, the UK’s employment tax legislation has evolved largely in response to repeated attempts by successive governments to reduce PAYE and NICs avoidance in labour supply cha

In September 2025, former England and Liverpool footballer John Barnes was declared bankrupt following a petition by HMRC.

The changes in the way people work, combined with recent legisative changes that expand employees’ rights to request flexible working, mean that employers must be prepared for a more agile work

Every tax professional I speak to feels the same tension. On one hand, there’s relentless pressure to ‘do something with AI’.

I wrote in the September 2024 edition of ‘Tax Adviser’ about the Court of Appeal’s decision in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWCA Civ 177 and its potentially profo

Experiencing a delay on the way to my firm’s Glasgow office recently because the shooting of the latest Spiderman film had taken over the city centre, I reflected on just how successful our cre