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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

Engagment with HMRC and other policy makers

We have had a number of recent interactions with HMRC including:

We have had a number of meetings including:

The CIOT is represented on two HMRC stakeholder forums concerned with SDLT.

The CIOT has responded to HMRC’s request for proposals to improve the effectiveness of IR35, including transferring liability from the personal service company (PSC) to the engager and changing the

LITRG, the ATT and CIOT responded to an HMRC consultation which proposed removing home-to-work travel and subsistence tax relief for a worker engaged through an employment intermediary and who is s

An anomaly for trusts

The CIOT has raised concerns with HMRC on the application of what has become FA 2015 s 24 (relief for finance costs related to residential property businesses) to in

We have been advised that HMRC will not be issuing paper statements and payslips to self-assessment taxpayers to remind them of the 31 January 2016 filing and payment date unless the taxpayer has f

Further to our report in September’s Technical Newsdesk, we have recently met HMRC to discuss their initiative, Making Tax Easier, and we are able now to update members.