The Treasury Committee has assessed the suitability of Michael Jack and John Whiting for the positions of Chair and Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification.
A former policeman was jailed for his part in an attempted £330m VAT fraud, the largest of its kind in the UK. Nigel Cranswick and five others were caught by HMRC investigators after claiming that their new business Ideas 2 Go Ltd sold more than 6m mobile phones in eight months.
Personal online tax accounts and pre-filled tax returns could ‘transform’ people’s experience of the tax system and improve their understanding of what they pay, under proposals unveiled at a Downing Street press conference today.
‘Business is “seriously concerned” about the risk of a backlash from the handling of tax avoidance disputes, according to the CBI, as it stepped into a row over the Revenue’s dealings with big companies.
Five leading tax professionals, including HMRC's Judith Knott, took part in a roundtable discussion on UK tax competitiveness. Much of the discussion, chaired by John Overs, concerned CFC reform and the potential ‘gateway’ test to filter cases out of the regime.
The 2013 deadline for the introduction of Real Time Information, a new PAYE reporting system, will require substantive employer tax and HR systems changes, say Mark Groom and Eira Smith.
One minute with Pete Miller, partner, The Miller Partnership
Leading tax advisers have defended the role of the Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers (WCOTA), a livery company of the City of London, after an influential tax campaigner said he found the company’s links to the City and its Lord Mayor ‘ever so slightly sinister’.