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On a sombre Friday morning a week or so ago I found myself in a Whitehall office overlooking Parliament Square, listening to Big Ben’s chimes whilst sitting with a senior civil servant and a repres

A recurring conflict in VAT law arises between the conferring of exemption from VAT on services regarded as being in the public interest - the presumed intention being not to burden such public int

We have been advised that HMRC will not be issuing paper statements and payslips to self-assessment taxpayers to remind them of the 31 January 2016 filing and payment date unless the taxpayer has f

Further to our report in September’s Technical Newsdesk, we have recently met HMRC to discuss their initiative, Making Tax Easier, and we are able now to update members.

HMRC have recently expanded testing of their AOSS private beta service to firms with up to 500 employer clients. More than 1,200 agents have now registered for the trial.

The CIOT has welcomed HMRC’s decision to wind down their Business Record Check (BRC) programme from 20 October 2015.

It is usually clear whether a business should register for VAT as soon as it starts trading.

Have you ever watched Deal or No Deal hosted by Noel Edmonds? It is a television game show in which contestants have to guess which boxes contain high-value money prizes.

The Upper Tribunal has held that a self-assessment tax return submitted by a taxpayer more than four years after the tax year to which it related should be accepted by HMRC and that the time limit

The CIOT, ATT and LITRG made submissions to the House of Commons Finance Bill Committee on what has become FA 2015 s 51 and Sch 8.