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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.

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

The CIOT and LITRG made submissions to four committees of the Scottish parliament in August.

The CIOT has made a submission in response to the call for evidence issued by the Commission for Competitive and Fair Taxation in Scotland, which was set up by Ruth Davidson, the leader of the Scot

In the summer Budget delivered in July, the Chancellor announced sweeping cuts to the tax credits system.

The CIOT has submitted a response to the Scottish government consultation on the Scottish Fiscal Commission, which was set up on a non-statutory basis in June 2014.

After an extended delay we now have the feedback from the workshops in February and March 2015 to discuss the future of Working Together in a digital age.