TAX POLICY ADMINISTRATION

There is no doubt that the current UK government has achieved real changes to the Protocol that will reduce a number of the tax and customs issues, as George Peretz KC (Monckton Chambers) explains.

Robert Maas

A longer tax code and a more punitive tax authority. On his retirement after working in tax for almost 60 years, Robert Maas (formerly Carter Backer Winter) reflects on the evolution of the UK tax landscape.

Paul Aplin OBE

Paul Aplin OBE (former ICAEW president) discusses the new world of conversational artificial intelligence and its potential impact on the profession.

Alan Barr

Isobel d'Inverno

The stability of the Scottish Budget appearing in its ‘normal’ timeslot was balanced by some fairly radical departures from UK tax policy, write Isobel d’Inverno and Alan Barr (Brodies).

James Quarmby

The CJEU’s decision has reminded us that privacy rights cannot be ignored, no matter how worthy the aims of the transparency movement, writes James Quarmby (Stephenson Harwood).

Ross Birkbeck

Can arrangements designed to reduce a business’s tax bill still be wholly and exclusively for the purposes of its trade? HMRC seems not to think so, writes Ross Birkbeck (Old Square Tax Chambers).

Matthew Durward-Thomas

Serena Lee

The QAHC regime seems a shinier, more flexible, version of the UK’s securitisation company regime. Serena Lee and Matthew Durward-Thomas (Akin Gump) consider how the two regimes interact.

George Peretz KC

The Bill had its second reading in the House of Commons on 25 October. George Peretz KC (Monckton Chambers) looks at what it does and its implications for tax practitioners.