HMRC is using a ‘customer centric strategy’ to transform the way it delivers services, manages contact and conducts interventions, the department proclaimed in its ‘Business Plan 2011-15’.
The UK’s tax system falls short of the ideal ‘in costly and inequitable ways’, according to the Mirrlees Review released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules, SI 2010/2653, make several changes to some First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal Rules.
The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners has introduced a new 'private client diploma' for accounting and tax specialists in England and Wales, focusing on the legal principles and practices underlying the administration of trusts and estates.
‘Campaigners for a ‘Robin Hood’ tax – sometimes called a Tobin tax – on financial deals received a boost when the first in-depth study of the idea found that transaction taxes were feasible and would allow the Government to double Britain's annual aid budget,’ The Guardian reported (9 No
The Government will publish draft clauses planned for Finance Bill 2011 on 9 December.
The House of Commons completed its consideration of the current Finance Bill on 8 November.
Revenue & Customs Brief 47/10 invites comments by 30 November on draft regulations implementing several changes to the VAT legislation.
Matthew Hodkin and David Ward consider the criteria for allocation of First-tier Tribunal cases to the ‘complex’ category following Capital Air Services