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The Welsh government consults on how to change tax laws
In a recent consultation, the Welsh government asked for views on the current arrangements for making changes to the Welsh devolved taxes legislation and invited suggestions for any process that mi
Updates to VAT guidance: postponed VAT accounting
The Guidance Strategy Forum has an ongoing VAT guidance improvement project, which reviews the general VAT guidance on GOV.UK (but not the more in-depth VAT public notices or VAT manuals).
Football finances: HMRC’s crackdown on non-compliance
In September 2025, former England and Liverpool footballer John Barnes was declared bankrupt following a petition by HMRC.
Remote and flexible working: an overseas adventure
The changes in the way people work, combined with recent legisative changes that expand employees’ rights to request flexible working, mean that employers must be prepared for a more agile work
The AI conundrum: AI’s role in indirect tax
Every tax professional I speak to feels the same tension. On one hand, there’s relentless pressure to ‘do something with AI’.
Review of Budgets 2024 and 2025: looking at the two Budgets as one...
Now that we have had a little time to reflect on this government’s first two Budgets – and to move away from the extensive speculation that surrounded them – it is clear that they need to be se
Distortion of competition: the burden of proof
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
Trusts and settlements: gifts with reservation of benefits
This article concludes our series on the inheritance tax reforms introduced by Finance Act 2025, turning to one of the areas most significantly affected by the shift to a residence-based regime
