Price Waterhouse will lodge its application for a judicial review of the Inland Revenue’s decision to tax Jersey LLPs as corporations within the...
View articleBig Six tax experts are queuing up to advise London Metal Exchange traders following a wide-ranging Inland Revenue probe into the market. Phil Davis, ...
View articleTop City banker Martin Taylor has pledged to look at ‘radical’ solutions to unifying the tax and benefit system in his role as chairman of...
View articleI returned to a House of Commons changed beyond recognition. Wide-eyed Labour MPs, many of them women, were everywhere. Shell-shocked Tories looked li...
View articleCourt ruling could cost Revenue millions in investigations costs. Read More...
View articleBernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Holdings is heading for a London stock market listing that could see the race management business valued at #1.5...
View articleMaurice Parry-Wingfield asks if you are ready for new tax rules onbusiness travel. Read More...
View articleNew Labour’s fledgling administration will shake up City regulation, pensions provision and crack-down hard on tax avoidance. The emerging stanc...
View articleThe dust from Labour's landslide election victory had hardly settledbefore tax experts were bidding to influence new Chancellor GordonBrown. Read More...
View articleHealth group to take on Customs over insurance premium tax. Read More...
View articleAccording to a Treasury leak, unexpected extra revenues yielded byclosed tax loopholes will allow the new Chancellor to cut the Budgetdeficit. Read Mo...
View articleUnderstandably, a number of our readers nearly keeled over when they read last week that Accountancy Age had come out in support of Tony Blair’s...
View articleLabour’s windfall tax is the one sure-fire measure that tax experts are prepared for in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s first Budget. While they...
View articleConstruction employers are coaching sub-contractors to avoid payingnational insurance under new tax rules for the industry. Read More...
View articleConfusing corporate debt legislation is preventing the sale of businesses, a leading tax expert has claimed. BDO Stoy Hayward tax partner Martin Kaye ...
View articleRobin Cook this week sparked a storm when he ducked questions over which companies would pay the windfall tax by claiming it would be up to the Inland...
View articleA profit and loss statement and balance sheet drawn up for ‘UK Ltd’ by Big Six firm KPMG shows UK owner-managed businesses to be ‘fl...
View articleAnxious technical directors of the Inland Revenue’s self-assessment project breathed a huge sigh of relief last week as the first tax return ele...
View articleA wrangle between Customs & Excise and the owners of a spot-the-ball competition over the amount of VAT chargeable on the game’s turnover ha...
View articleTwo-thirds of finance directors believe the Inland Revenue should declare an amnesty on penalties for late filing of tax returns for the first two yea...
View articleAfter a delay of nearly a year, a VAT tribunal last week finally threw out a claim by the Co-operative Insurance Society that it should be able to rec...
View articleLast week’s General Election proved to be dismal for MPs from the accountancy profession. Only five are going to be walking through the corridor...
View articleCoopers & Lybrand taxman Michael Economou goes west on secondment tothe British consulate in Chicago. He explains how such assignments arewin-win-...
View articleAllied Carpets suffered a defeat at a VAT tribunal last month which saw the company fail to recover more than #279,000 in tax. Allied had set up an el...
View articleThe political parties were still grappling with questions of tax just days before the polls open. Calls from business for an increase in income tax ad...
View articleMario Monti, the European commissioner for fiscal studies, was right to reject a ‘bit tax‘ on flows of data on the Internet (News, 17 Apri...
View articleTax chaos will result if a Labour government implements its plans forScottish devolution, writes Edwin Hamilton, Conservative candidate for Glasgow Po...
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