Jailed former Inland Revenue tax inspector Michael Allcock is expected to confirm his decision to appeal against his five-year sentence for corruption...
View articleAttempts by Customs & Excise to prevent private health companies from claiming back VAT on capital expenditure suffered a further setback last wee...
View articleEuropean Commissioner for fiscal issues Mario Monti has ruled out a ‘bit tax‘ on flows of data over the information superhighway. Monti, s...
View articleRacal Electronics has won a landmark tax ruling in the Court of Appeal overturning a High Court decision barring the company from claiming a $30m paym...
View articleSeveral prime targets for Labour’s proposed windfall levy could escape being taxed altogether, a report by Credit Lyonnais claims. Excess return...
View articleImproved health and education services are more important to theelectorate than tax cuts. Read More...
View articleA Labour-backed think-tank of industrialists has supported plans to reform lucrative non-resident tax breaks for entrepreneurs selling their business....
View articleIn the forest of electoral tax pledges, the IFS aims to show the woodfrom the trees. Read More...
View articleThe Tories will introduce green taxes to make the polluter pay, Chancellor Kenneth Clarke and Environment Secretary John Gummer have announced. They s...
View articleThe 95,000-member Federation of Small Businesses is calling for widespread reform of commercial law and an easing of the regulatory and self-assessmen...
View articleAn Inland Revenue ‘failure to listen’ to tax experts’ concerns over self-assessment has forced the English ICA to go public in its c...
View articleNew Labour’s refusal to clarify its policy on the VAT zero-rating of new homes has dismayed builders and tax experts. Both claim any Chancellor ...
View articleBogus self-employed workers in the construction industry have been warned against setting up elaborate schemes to avoid a clampdown by the Inland Reve...
View articleChartered accountant Paul James of Eastbourne firm Ashdown Hurrey has claimed the Inland Revenue’s ‘ghostbuster’ special compliance ...
View articleA new Labour government is unlikely to meddle with the competitive corporate tax advantage the UK has over its European neighbours, tax experts said l...
View articleThe Labour party’s proposed windfall tax on the privatised utilities, slated to bring in between #3bn and #5bn in revenue, will fall foul of Eur...
View articleThe Tories have gone to great lengths to put the fear of God into the UK’s electorate about Labour’s tax plans. So why have British boardr...
View articleLabour has made a big play on the Conservatives’ 22 tax rises since 1992. But what is the truth behind the rhetoric? Accountancy Age has compile...
View articleA parliamentary body is needed to monitor the efficiency of Customsand the Inland Revenue. Read More...
View articleA trip to Companies House in March 1996 would not have revealed anything very unusual about retailing group Red or Dead Ltd, then owned by Stephen Hin...
View articleNational Insurance will emerge as a key election issue – if Labour lets it. Labour’s 1992 pledge to abolish the upper earnings limit on NI...
View articleParty political VAT claim and counter-claim have been prominent on poster sites across the nation for months. The emotive approach used to launch the ...
View articleThe Labour party will be encouraged to clamp down on tax scams with greater force than the current Government’s anti-avoidance policies, accordi...
View articleBy Hooman Bassirian Hereward Phillips, the London-based 12-partner firm facing a #670,000 bill from a former Lloyd?s Name, this week vowed to appeal a...
View articleThe European Union has cleared all 15 member states to introduce value added tax measures to stop the loss of VAT from call-back telecommunication ser...
View articleWhen Tim Smith, our longest serving columnist, spoke with Accountancy Age last Tuesday as we went to press, he was determined to tough out the nationa...
View articleTaxation experts were falling over themselves to offer last minute advice to clients last week after Prime Minister John Major surprised no one by con...
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