Helen Lethaby reviews important developments, including the EBT settlement opportunity, and the ‘four dead men’ clause in Blumenthal.
HMRC is ‘potentially disqualified’ from involvement in advisory panel
HMRC has outsourced work via self-assessment but ‘this is a step too far’
Legal profession taskforce is expected to yield £3m
The advisory panel on the proposed general anti-abuse rule should be ‘wholly independent, with no representatives of HMRC’ according to the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Agreement benefits UK financial institutions, says Treasury
Comments invited by 5 December 2012
Audit exemptions widened for small companies and LLPs
Award is 'believed to be the largest ever bestowed on a whistleblower'
Most of the wealthiest taxpayers ‘play by the rules’