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HM Treasury

Boost private lending with tax breaks

Forum of Private Business wants the government to go beyond its plans for an SME debt market

05 Oct 2011

Danny Alexander

ICAS grills Alexander on regulation

Danny Alexander dodges question on strengthened regulation for the accountancy profession, reports Rose Orlik from the ICAS conference

30 Sep 2011

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Tax gap: HMRC should speculate to accumulate

Could investment into HMRC close the tax gap?

22 Sep 2011

SMEs owe more as tax gap falls

Tax gap falls £4bn to £35bn, which HMRC and the Treasury class as 'progress'

21 Sep 2011

Lib Dems dismiss 50% rate removal

Little chance for 50% income tax band to be canned, after Lib Dems suggest alternative tax would have to replace lost revenues

19 Sep 2011

2,250 tax inspectors lined up for avoidance focus

HMRC will aim to cut avoidance through 2,000 new roles

19 Sep 2011

Treasury closes overseas tax loop

The Treasury has closed a loophole through which companies might have claimed income tax that had never been paid

16 Sep 2011

Behind the 50p rate headline figures

Estimates of how much the top rate of tax will raise, or lose, have dominated finance pages. But to what extent can we rely on the headline figures?

15 Sep 2011

Treasury sets date for consultation responses

Government to publish draft Finance Act legislation by 6 December 2011

14 Sep 2011

Treasury ends double taxation consultation

Proposals to tackle double taxation avoidance schemes are deemed unworkable

12 Sep 2011

50p rate to raise £12.6bn in five years, Treasury figures show

Parliamentary question reveals Treasury's revenue projection for top rate of tax

08 Sep 2011

Economists attack 50p tax rate

A group of influential academics says top rate of tax is harming growth

07 Sep 2011

UK and Switzerland announce historic agreement

Deal to be worth billions of pounds to the Exchequer

24 Aug 2011

Ministers urged to introduce industry tax breaks

Leading businessman Jim McColl calls for manufacturing tax break

23 Aug 2011

45p tax rate reports are refuted

Treasury dismisses suggestion that rate will be cut by March 2012

05 Aug 2011

Top tax rate 'exodus' fails to materialise

First brokers take up offer to move to low tax jurisdictions

04 Aug 2011

PwC fails to fawn over Whiting

Firm takes muted line to Whiting's plans on tax simplification

02 Aug 2011

NI holiday scheme an 'embarrassing setback'

Ed Balls castigates the government for its lack of success in encouraging new business to take employees' tax relief

01 Aug 2011

NIC holiday figures still short of target

New businesses still failing to take up flagship government scheme

21 Jul 2011

CFC rules provide an intellectual problem

The reform of controlled foreign companies does not make good reading for intellectual property-dependent businesses

19 Jul 2011

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Leader: Will younger generation push for a UK institute?

Will British institutes learn from a New Zealand/Australia merger - or have the Trans/Tasmans already learned from them?

Jo Swinson: More needed but insolvency reform step in the right direction

Consumer affairs minister Jo Swinson writes for Accountancy Age on the incoming reforms to insolvency practitioners’ regulation.

FRC is sounding like a modern day Cassandra

Concerns raised in the FRC's latest round of audit inspections sound strikingly familar. Why has the profession failed to address them?

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Don't COP out of guiding clients through tax mire

Anita Brook of Accounts Assist gives a hands-on guide to Code of Practice 9

Taking Stock: Accountancy and the sheriff of Cumbria

TS loves it when two worlds collide

Colin: Hey diddle (tax) diddle

Colin offers his assessment of the pressure on 'tax havens'

Colin: Don't panic! (about avoidance)

Colin succinctly rounds up the latest court ruling on tax avoidance and advisers' responsiblities

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