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Armed forces personnel can find their tax position difficult to navigate due to several reasons: the complex system of allowances paid to them; how tax is paid on those allowances, if they are taxa

A recurrent theme of Technical Newsdesk is that consultation in advance of new measures helps to ensure that the policy objectives are clearly defined and that the legislation serves those objectiv

The CIOT has responded to the Treasury Committee’s inquiry into the ‘shifting sands of UK tax policy and the tax base’.

The wide-ranging inquiry covers:

Tax policy – simplification

The late Lord Geoffrey Howe once picturesquely compared the task of the Tax Law Rewrite Project – the team that was established in 1996 to rewrite the UK’s dir

Budget 2016 included further details of the rollout of tax-free childcare, and regulations made immediately before the statement contained changes that may lead to significant cuts in some tax cred

As those involved with Working Together will know, specialist agent managers (SAMs) work with agents to resolve issues that have been identified, through Working Together, as widespread and having

The CIOT is contributing to HMRC’s Stamp Taxes project to consider current difficulties on the main statutory definition of residential property for SDLT purposes in FA 2003 s 116 and the associate

The recent branches conference was well attended, with representation from around three quarters of the UK branches.

There has been an exceptionally high level of public interest in tax recently and this has been especially visible in the press coverage of the taxation of multinational companies and their employe

Introduction 

The draft Finance Bill clauses were, in the main, published on 9 December, and comments were invited until 3 February.