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Tax in 2024 and beyond
Bill Dodwell
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.
Other cases that caught our eye: 28 July 2023
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...
Untangling the tax spaghetti bowl: a look back at the OTS
Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell (OTS) looks back at the work of the Office of Tax Simplification.
What next for the OTS?
Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell (Office of Tax Simplification) provides an update on the OTS’s latest work.
Private client review for May 2021
Edward Reed
Pippa Goodfellow
Edward Reed and Pippa Goodfellow (Macfarlanes) provide this month’s
review of private client developments that matter.
The OTS: the story so far
Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell, tax director of the Office of Tax Simplification, considers the OTS's role in the tax
landscape since its establishment in 2010.
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.
Simplifying the UK tax system
Sarah Squires
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.
Simplification: what’s coming next?
Paul Morton
Paul Morton (The Office of Tax Simplification) sets out the OTS’s programme of work for 2018 and invites feedback from readers.
Streamlining corporation tax
John Whiting CBE
John Whiting (Office of Tax Simplification) outlines the OTS’s new project on reviewing the corporation tax computation.
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