TAX POLICY ADMINISTRATION

And the Chancellor said: And I will improve competition in our taxi industry by ending ride-hailing companies use of a discount scheme intended for coach tours In 35 years of practice, I have never heard the VAT Tour...

No changes were announced in the Budget to the rates of ring fence corporation tax, supplementary charge to corporation tax or the energy profits levy (EPL). There was no announcement on any change to EPL and therefore this will remain in place until...

The taxation of the much-maligned gambling sector has been subject to increasing scrutiny by the Treasury in recent years, culminating in a Treasury consultation in April 2025 and a pre-budget review by the Treasury Committee in November. It is...

The Autumn Budget has confirmed the introduction of a new scheme to reward informants who help HMRC recover tax that has been avoided or evaded. Announced by James Murray MP in March 2025, the scheme is designed to incentivise...

The mood music surrounding Budget 2025 was notably downbeat over the past few weeks, with many practitioners expressing pessimism about the scope and direction of the expected changes. Given the strained state of the public finances and the...

The 2,000 cap: Generally, the pensions industry, businesses (of all sizes), pensioners and individuals will heave a collective sigh of relief that the Chancellors smorgasbord Budget has stayed away from tinkering with anything more than...

For the City of London, one of the most noteworthy tax reforms pursued by the Government since it was elected in 2024 has been the introduction of a new tax regime for carried interest, under which receipts will be taxed as trading income within the...

HM Treasury has presented its long-awaited report to Parliament of its mandated review of the digital services tax, the controversial two per cent levy on revenues earned from the provision of social media, search engine and online marketplace...

Fortunately, most of the pre-Budget scary stories did not come to fruition and many owner-managers breathed a sigh of relief! Of course, most of the tax damage for owner-managers took place last year, which has accelerated a lot...

There will be the usual complaints about the tax burden on working people, but it is very modest compared with the 1960s and 1970s, when the top rate of income tax was still 98%, imposed to pay the USA for the monies lent to us for WW2. There will...