PW lodges LLP review request
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PW lodges LLP review request

28y John Stylianou

PW lodges LLP review request

Price Waterhouse will lodge its application for a judicial review of the Inland Revenue’s decision to tax Jersey LLPs as corporations within the...

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FRAUD - Big Six cash in on LME tax investigation
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FRAUD - Big Six cash in on LME tax investigation

28y John Stylianou

FRAUD - Big Six cash in on LME tax investigation

Big Six tax experts are queuing up to advise London Metal Exchange traders following a wide-ranging Inland Revenue probe into the market. Phil Davis, ...

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Tax and benefit unification
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Tax and benefit unification

28y John Stylianou

Tax and benefit unification

Top City banker Martin Taylor has pledged to look at ‘radical’ solutions to unifying the tax and benefit system in his role as chairman of...

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VIEW FROM THE HOUSE
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VIEW FROM THE HOUSE

28y John Stylianou

VIEW FROM THE HOUSE

I returned to a House of Commons changed beyond recognition. Wide-eyed Labour MPs, many of them women, were everywhere. Shell-shocked Tories looked li...

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Taxman loses probe case
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Taxman loses probe case

28y John Stylianou

Taxman loses probe case

Court ruling could cost Revenue millions in investigations costs. Read More...

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Formula One heads for flotation
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Formula One heads for flotation

28y John Stylianou

Formula One heads for flotation

Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Holdings is heading for a London stock market listing that could see the race management business valued at #1.5...

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TAXATION - Long day's journey into tax relief
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TAXATION - Long day's journey into tax relief

28y John Stylianou

TAXATION - Long day's journey into tax relief

Maurice Parry-Wingfield asks if you are ready for new tax rules onbusiness travel. Read More...

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City braced for Labour reforms
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City braced for Labour reforms

28y John Stokdyk

City braced for Labour reforms

New Labour’s fledgling administration will shake up City regulation, pensions provision and crack-down hard on tax avoidance. The emerging stanc...

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Firms rush to advise Brown on tax reform
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Firms rush to advise Brown on tax reform

28y John Stokdyk

Firms rush to advise Brown on tax reform

The dust from Labour's landslide election victory had hardly settledbefore tax experts were bidding to influence new Chancellor GordonBrown. Read More...

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Court fight looms on IPT
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Court fight looms on IPT

28y John Stokdyk

Court fight looms on IPT

Health group to take on Customs over insurance premium tax. Read More...

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Brown discovers 'secret cash pile'
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Brown discovers 'secret cash pile'

28y John Stokdyk

Brown discovers 'secret cash pile'

According to a Treasury leak, unexpected extra revenues yielded byclosed tax loopholes will allow the new Chancellor to cut the Budgetdeficit. Read Mo...

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Why New Labour means New Conservatives
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Why New Labour means New Conservatives

28y John Stokdyk

Why New Labour means New Conservatives

Understandably, 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...

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Nerves jangle over effects of windfall tax
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Nerves jangle over effects of windfall tax

28y John Stokdyk

Nerves jangle over effects of windfall tax

Labour’s windfall tax is the one sure-fire measure that tax experts are prepared for in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s first Budget. While they...

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Builders side-step PAYE rules
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Builders side-step PAYE rules

28y John Stokdyk

Builders side-step PAYE rules

Construction employers are coaching sub-contractors to avoid payingnational insurance under new tax rules for the industry. Read More...

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Experts call for debt law reform
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Experts call for debt law reform

28y John Stokdyk

Experts call for debt law reform

Confusing corporate debt legislation is preventing the sale of businesses, a leading tax expert has claimed. BDO Stoy Hayward tax partner Martin Kaye ...

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Labour leaves windfall targets to Revenue
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Labour leaves windfall targets to Revenue

28y John Stokdyk

Labour leaves windfall targets to Revenue

Robin 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...

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UK owner-managed sector booming says KPMG report
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UK owner-managed sector booming says KPMG report

28y John Stokdyk

UK owner-managed sector booming says KPMG report

A 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...

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First email tax return arrives on time
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First email tax return arrives on time

28y John Stokdyk

First email tax return arrives on time

Anxious technical directors of the Inland Revenue’s self-assessment project breathed a huge sigh of relief last week as the first tax return ele...

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Football game tax status may change
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Football game tax status may change

28y John Stokdyk

Football game tax status may change

A 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...

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FDs plead for leniency over late self-assessment returns
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FDs plead for leniency over late self-assessment returns

28y John Stokdyk

FDs plead for leniency over late self-assessment r...

Two-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...

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Co-op loses #400,000 hotel bills case
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Co-op loses #400,000 hotel bills case

28y John Stokdyk

Co-op loses #400,000 hotel bills case

After 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...

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Tory accountants hit by election drubbing
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Tory accountants hit by election drubbing

28y John Stokdyk

Tory accountants hit by election drubbing

Last week’s General Election proved to be dismal for MPs from the accountancy profession. Only five are going to be walking through the corridor...

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Working abroad: Letter from America
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Working abroad: Letter from America

28y John Stokdyk

Working abroad: Letter from America

Coopers & Lybrand taxman Michael Economou goes west on secondment tothe British consulate in Chicago. He explains how such assignments arewin-win-...

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VAT tribunal hits Allied Carpets for #279,000
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VAT tribunal hits Allied Carpets for #279,000

28y John Stokdyk

VAT tribunal hits Allied Carpets for #279,000

Allied 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...

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Election 1997: Tax dominates to the very end
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Election 1997: Tax dominates to the very end

28y John Stokdyk

Election 1997: Tax dominates to the very end

The 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...

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Letters - Internet tax will damage powerful accountancy tool
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Letters - Internet tax will damage powerful accountancy tool

28y John Stokdyk

Letters - Internet tax will damage powerful accoun...

Mario Monti, the European commissioner for fiscal studies, was right to reject a ‘bit tax‘ on flows of data on the Internet (News, 17 Apri...

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VIEW FROM THE HUSTINGS: Labour has to answer tax-raising questions
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VIEW FROM THE HUSTINGS: Labour has to answer tax-raising questions

28y John Stokdyk

VIEW FROM THE HUSTINGS: Labour has to answer tax-r...

Tax chaos will result if a Labour government implements its plans forScottish devolution, writes Edwin Hamilton, Conservative candidate for Glasgow Po...

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