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Tax in 2024 and beyond premium
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Increased digital reporting, the implementation of Pillar Two, potential further reforms to pensions tax... Bill Dodwell, former Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification, looks at what’s in store for tax in the year ahead.
10 January 2024
Other cases that caught our eye: 28 July 2023 premium
Petroleum revenue tax (PRT) and subsidiary argumentIn HMRC v Perenco UK Ltd [2023] UKUT 169 (TCC) (19 July 2023), the UT dismissed HMRC's appeal against the FTT decision. Consequently, expenditure incurred by the taxpayer during the relevant period...
25 July 2023
Untangling the tax spaghetti bowl: a look back at the OTS premium
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Bill Dodwell (OTS) looks back at the work of the Office of Tax Simplification.
24 February 2023
What next for the OTS? premium
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Bill Dodwell (Office of Tax Simplification) provides an update on the OTS’s latest work.
3 March 2022
Private client review for May 2021 premium
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Edward Reed and Pippa Goodfellow (Macfarlanes) provide this month’s review of private client developments that matter.
20 May 2021
The OTS: the story so far
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Bill Dodwell, tax director of the Office of Tax Simplification, considers the OTS's role in the tax landscape since its establishment in 2010.
20 January 2021
OTS proposes IHT shake-up of lifetime gifts
The latest OTS report on IHT explores complexities and technical issues around gift exemptions, lifetime gifts, and distortions in the way business property relief and agricultural property relief operate.
10 July 2019
Simplifying the UK tax system
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Sarah Squires (Old Square Tax Chambers) reports on a Tax Journal event where the OTS shared its mission to make it easier to compute and pay tax.
 
26 July 2018
Simplification: what’s coming next?
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Paul Morton (The Office of Tax Simplification) sets out the OTS’s programme of work for 2018 and invites feedback from readers.
 
22 February 2018
Streamlining corporation tax
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John Whiting (Office of Tax Simplification) outlines the OTS’s new project on reviewing the corporation tax computation.
 
25 May 2016
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