Doubt has been cast over high-profile investigations involving jailed Inland Revenue tax inspector Michael Allcock which led to the collapse of Polly ...
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View articleBusinesses face an unprecedented onslaught from revenue authorities as the Government bids to boost its tax yield, experts said this week. At most ris...
View articleSpecial arrangements for taxing employment termination settlements agreed since April 1996 will be introduced prior to an Inland Revenue consultation ...
View articleThe Institute of Directors has called for a radical overhaul of the UK tax system to encourage enterprise and create wealth. IoD taxation executive Ri...
View articleBy Jon Bunn Barclays Bank is scrapping plans to develop a self-assessment telephone advice service amid fears about client confidentiality and escalat...
View articleSelf-employed taxpayers will soon be able to return tax forms over the Internet, the Government said last week, despite fears that confidential inform...
View articleThe Inland Revenue is to stop ruling on taxpayers’ residency or domicile status under self-assessment. The decision, which will hit thousands of...
View articleThe Government’s latest Finance Bill U-turn has raised serious questions about its drafting standards and levels of consultation. Exchequer Secr...
View articleThe European Commission is examining a request by the Irish authorities to derogate from EU VAT rules in order to counter growing tax avoidance involv...
View articleSo-called ‘protected’ venture capital trusts are abusing the spirit of the legislation by handing tax breaks to risk-shy investors and big...
View articleAre accountants destined to remain the poorly paid relations of theirlegal cousins, or are the big wigs about to get their come-uppance? PatrickWilkin...
View articleIf you can't see the wood for the trees in the pensions maze, howabout investing in a nice bit of woodland? William Cobbett branches out. Read More...
View articleBy Jon Bunn Clark Whitehill has signed up at least 100 former tax officials to act as franchisees for its new self-assessment advisory service. Simpli...
View articleBy Jon Bunn Customs & Excise?s war against tax fraud, evasion and avoidance has been boosted by the call-up of an extra 350 VAT officers. The new ...
View articleBy Hamish Champ The Accounting Standards Board?s Statement on Interim Reporting has been broadly welcomed by the profession, but opinion is split on w...
View articlePressure from accountants and the property industry has forced the Government to back down on a controversial Finance Bill measure designed to counter...
View articleThe Inland Revenue admitted this week that its electronic lodgement system to support self-assessment will arrive nearly a month late after three week...
View articlePrice Waterhouse and Ernst & Young may defy the Inland Revenue’s bombshell decision this week to tax Jersey LLPs as corporations by attempti...
View articleScrapping barriers to exchanging information between the Inland Revenue, Customs & Excise and the Department of Social Security will result in hug...
View articleMistrust, confusion, alienation, confrontation, self-assessment. Not words the Inland Revenue wants to see in the same sentence. But the English ICA&#...
View articleVenture capital managers have gone cool on the idea of launching venture capital trusts (VCTs), the great enterprise investment tax break of the 1994 ...
View articleTax collection staff yesterday lobbied Parliament and handed petitions to 10 Downing Street over local office closure plans. The Public Services Tax a...
View articleOne in four finance directors has lost faith in the Inland Revenue following the Michael Allcock scandal. Many others had little faith in the first pl...
View articleStandard Accounts Information on self-assessment forms fails to give clients sufficient information to help their businesses, warns the London Society...
View articleRushcliffe Borough Council employees have been told by the Government to boycott tax advisers recommended by their Tory-controlled local authority. Fi...
View articleA leading tax investigator claims the Polly Peck investigation was based on misinterpreted information gleaned by maverick Inland Revenue inspector Mi...
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