TAX POLICY ADMINISTRATION

The key takeaways.

Government policy is always about trade-offs and nowhere is this more apparent than tax policy, writes former Treasury minister David Gauke. 

The role of taxation featured prominently at this year’s World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, writes Jane McCormick (KPMG).

Ray McCann (Joseph Hage Aaronson) considers the challenges facing both HMRC and the wider tax profession.

The three main political parties offer voters starkly different choices on tax, writes Stuart Adam of the IFS.

Who you gonna call?

Accounting standards bodies could play a key role as setter of the rules for a global tax base. 

The government intends to change the law retrospectively to make it clear that HMRC can use automated processes to issue notices to file returns and to issue penalties, report Catherine Robins and Steven Porter (Pinsent Masons).