The OECD has published a report examining how tax policy can encourage skills development in OECD countries. It considers:
The financial secretary to the Treasury, Jane Ellison, has not accepted the Treasury Select Committee’s recommendation that the Finance Bill Committee should hear oral evidence on the Finance Bill.
HMRC has launched a new hotline for the public to report tax fraud and evasion, replacing two previously separate hotlines, aiming to streamline HMRC’s intelligence gathering. The hotline number is 0800 788 887 and is open between 8am and 8pm, seven days a week.
VAT wrongly paid and consumers’ remedies
Deductible costs under TCGA 1992 s 38
SDRT wrongly paid and FA 2004 s 320
Information obtained by HMRC under invalid information notice
Issues to be considered by the courts
This report, by the Lexis®PSL Tax, Private Client and Pensions teams, highlights the key provisions in the 2017 Finance Bill, published on 20 March, that have not been previously published in draft, or which have been published with significant amendments since the last draft.
On 30 March, the government published the white paper Legislating for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, setting out its approach to converting existing EU legislation into UK law, beginning with the introduction of the Great Repeal Bill at the start of the next par