Detailed proposals for reform of the controlled foreign companies regime do not reflect the government’s ‘high level aims’, according to the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
The VAT Consultancy announced the appointment of Sarah Franklin as a Senior VAT Manager and Hayley Rodger as a VAT Assistant. Franklin joins from Ernst & Young and Rodger joins from Bournemouth-based Princecroft Willis LLP.
Alvarez & Marsal Taxand UK has appointed Andrew Gavan as a Managing Director in London. He joins from KPMG.
PKF has warned that HMRC’s extended programme of business records checks will ‘waste everyone’s time’, and suggested that HMRC staff employed on the programme could be put to ‘much better use’.
There is a strong argument for pumping extra funds into HMRC’s efforts to reduce the tax gap, according to a leading firm of accountants and business advisers.
HMRC beat a hasty retreat on treaty anti-avoidance but it remains to be seen whether the OECD will back off from the ‘beneficial ownership’ debate, explains Helen Lethaby in this month's briefing