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Business Rates and Investment: Call for Evidence

The CIOT’s Business Rates Working Group will be looking at this

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

In a Budget where most announcements were widely speculated on beforehand, one surprise in Budget 2025 came in the form of a change to the capital gains tax relief (CGT) for sales to employee owner

The Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) is a complex system that affects a wide range of businesses involved in UK construction work, including many that may not realise they fall within its sco

Businesses often underestimate how much tax shapes behaviour. Consider the 5p charge on plastic bags: a minor levy that fundamentally shifted consumer habits almost overnight.

On 11 December 2024, CIOT and ICAEW published a joint report ‘Tackling HMRC’s customer service challenge’, following a six week study which involved our members recording their attempts to cont

Ahead of each UK Budget, HM Treasury invites interested stakeholders to submit formal Budget representations on potential changes to be considered by the Chancellor when preparing the Budget.

A landmark ruling by the UK Supreme Court has provided long-awaited clarity on VAT obligations for private hire operators outsi

CIOT response

The CIOT has significant concerns about the negative impact that the breadth of this legislation could have on the tax services market, as it is drafted at the time of wri