IN BRIEF

If leading tax experts were in charge, what policies would they implement?  Paul Aplin (A C Mole & Sons), Ian Brimicombe (AstraZeneca), Heather Self (Pinsent Masons), Chris Sanger (EY) and Steve Edge (Slaughter and May) share their views 

By Ben Jones (Eversheds)

Robert Field and Julian Pike (Farrer & Co) explain why ‘no comment’ is no longer an acceptable response to a media story on tax

How will a lower corporation tax rate benefit the Northern Irish economy? Eamonn Donaghy, head of tax at KPMG Belfast, explains that Northern Ireland, due to its disproportionately small private sector and shared border, is well-suited to reap the full advantages of a lower corporation tax rate.

Actions have consequences: for HMRC as much as for taxpayers, writes BKL Tax

The new corporate tax year began on Wednesday 1 April with a number of changes to the tax system coming into force. These include Scotland taking charge of its first tax for 300 years, as existing UK stamp duty and landfill tax are disapplied in...

In the past, financial services organisations have been able to adopt VAT partial exemption methods. These allow them to ‘look through’ to the supplies made by foreign branches and determine their recovery in proportion thereto, or to simply include...

The paradox at HMRC, by James Brockhurst TEP (Lee Bolton Monier-Williams)

Chris Morgan (KPMG) comments on the new corporate tax year which commences on 1 April.

Nick Skerrett (Simmons & Simmons) comments on a largely overlooked VAT development coming out of last week’s Budget, concerning the restriction on attributing input VAT to overseas branches.