Andrew Goldstone and Victoria Howarth provide an update on recent developments affecting the taxation of private clients.
Jolyon Maugham considers the latest HMRC consultation paper on the direct recovery of tax debts
The tax system in recent years has become more complicated, less efficient and less transparent. We should have a tax system which looks ‘like someone designed it on purpose’, writes Paul Johnson
Simon McKie says J Woolf was the ‘result of another morally shocking decision to litigate by HMRC’.
According to Bridging the divide, a report published by accountancy firm EY, 81% of companies consider that tax risks and controversy will become more important to their business in the next two years.
The Treasury Committee has expressed concerns about the proposed debt recovery powers and the use of retrospective legislation.
A round up of other tax news:
Leave to appeal a decision on postponement of tax
Cost allocation where a group loses an appeal