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TAX-POLICY


Arun Advani and Andy Summers (CenTax) explain how engagement with tax professionals is key to CenTax’s mission, and they outline three principles that will guide its work.
Donald Simpson reports the view from the 100 Group.
Jon Claypole and Jack Sloggett (BDO) welcome HMRC’s new R&D Disclosure Service but explain it is not suitable in all circumstances.
Unless shadow advisers are effectively regulated and HMRC can act closer to real time, we will soon once again be facing calls for regulation of the whole profession, writes Ray McCann.
The tax policies of President-elect Trump and the new European Commission are among the recent developments reviewed by Tim Sarson (KPMG).
Heather Self (Blick Rothenberg) considers the tax issues surrounding compensation payments made by the Post Office to subpostmasters.
Former HMRC general counsel Anthony Inglese talks to Dan Neidle about his high-profile retirement project.
Whether the talk is of 'stealth taxes' or 'tax locks', 'the war on avoidance' or 'the super-deduction', tax policy has always been drenched in politics. Former HMRC policy adviser Sam Mitha CBE compares rhetoric with reality. 
Etienne Wong (Old Square Tax Chambers) follows the ghost of the recent past to revisit a few intriguing developments in VAT over the past year.
 
Eloise Walker (Pinsent Masons) considers the latest OECD proposals for banks under the BEPS Action 4 interest restrictions, and what they might mean for the UK banking sector.
 
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