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The VAT liability of services supplied by doctors has been subject to much confusion since the rules changed in 2007, and even though nearly ten years has passed since the changes were introduced,

A separate morning session was dedicated to Customs Duty issues, dominated by Brexit and chaired by Jeremy White, a barrister at Pump Court Tax Chambers and regular presenter at CIOT conferences.&n

Business / non-business

As an alternative, it was suggested that the talk could have been entitled Economic and noneconomic activity (for VAT purposes).

In September’s Technical Newsdesk (Employee share schemes: NIC elections) we summarised the CIOT’s response to the government’s consultation on whether there is a

HMRC published a consultation in August 2016 on proposals to ‘simplify’ the process employers’ use for agreeing and reporting items to them through a PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA).

HM Treasury published a consultation document in August 2016 seeking views on the design of company car tax bands for ultra-low emission vehicles (ULEVs) from 2020/21 onwards.

The government has proposed to change the tax treatment where certain benefits-in-kind (BIK) are provided through salary sacrifice so that the BIK will be chargeable to income tax and Class 1A empl

Employment and Payroll Group (EPG)

The EPG is HMRC’s main employment taxes forum and generally focuses on high-level policy issues.

HMRC and HMT published the consultation on draft legislation to simplify the income tax and NIC treatment of termination payments to follow up a 2015 consultation.

After amendments to ITEPA 2003 Pt 7A (‘Disguised Remuneration’) in Finance Act 2016 aimed mainly at tackling a particular scheme, on 10 August HMRC published a technical consultation on draft legis