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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

Finance Committee

The CIOT made a submission in response to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament’s call for evidence on the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT).

We each have our own wishes, but in our day-to-day work one thing that we all want is an efficient, informative telephone service from HMRC. At the moment that is far from being provided.

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 DIY builder’s scheme is one of three that allow the refund of VAT incurred on particular types of building work.

Since my last article ‘Working Together – the digital future’ (Tax Adviser, August 2015), progress has been made and the first digital Working Together meeting was held on 24 September 201

It has been a busy and exciting time of course for practitioners of late.

On February 25th the highest German tax court, the Bundesfinanzhof (BFH), decided on the VAT implications of an EC chain transaction involving the UK (XI R 30/13).