Bill Dodwell on the Thin Cap GLO and the EU and national direct taxation
Andrew Green reflects with a practitioner's view on the OTS’s recommendations
John Whiting, Director of the Office of Tax Simplification, reflects on the OTS’s recommendations
The government has not done enough to set out the principles underlying tax policy, according to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
‘The Institute of Directors has urged the Chancellor to axe the 50% tax rate for high earners and reinstate their tax-free allowances, in order to kill off “the damaging perception” that the UK is becoming a high-tax economy.
Long standing issues in small business taxation have so far proven to be intractable, the Office of Tax Simplification said in its interim report, ‘Small business tax review’, presented to the Chancellor last week
An ‘aggressive’ tax avoidance scheme putting ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ of tax at risk was blocked with effect from 9 March in response to a disclosure made to HMRC under the scheme disclosure regulations.
LITRG’s view on the PTSP from Robin Williamson
Richard Clarke and Jessica McLellan review recent HMRC activity, including the Managing Deliberate Defaulters scheme and the Plumbers Tax Safe Plan (PTSP)
The public will not wear the ‘overly aggressive pursuit of lower tax bills’, David Gauke told the Hundred Group of finance directors in a recent speech.