Cutting red tape to allow employers to pay lump-sum national insurance contributions for minor expenses could be delayed until April 1998. Tax experts...
View articleMonths of unrelenting pressure from accountants and industry finally forced the Chancellor to introduce equal claim periods for Customs & Excise a...
View articleJohn Arnold argues that Customs is using a blunderbuss in the VATrepayment issue and playing the 'national interest' card in defence of anunjust polic...
View articleGetting rid of capital gains and inheritance tax may be moreachievable than reductions in income tax by Michael Stern,Conservative MP for Bristol Nort...
View articleA sharp rise in tax receipts during October has given the Chancellor greater scope for cutting taxes in next Tuesday’s Budget. Despite the incre...
View articleA major overhaul of the tax appeals system is urgently needed to clear up the ‘maze of provisions’ baffling taxpayers and practitioners al...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has begun sending out the first statements of account to almost 1.6m taxpayers as part of the move to self-assessment. The statemen...
View articleWith the Budget statement imminent, Jon Bunn asks leading lights ofthe profession to dust off their crystal balls. Read More...
View articleIntroducing a simple tax incentive could result in investment inBritish film production rising by 32%. Read More...
View articleCustoms & Excise has settled a key case against the three-year rule on VAT repayments after a tribunal chairman ruled partially against the Govern...
View articleElectronics group Thorn will take its appeal against Customs & Excise VAT treatment of its company car purchases to the House of Lords, writes Jon...
View articleAnomalies in the stamp duty system could cost taxpayers millions of pounds, claims Deloitte & Touche. Deloittes’ stamp duty team warned that...
View articleFinance directors have condemned the Government’s three-year rule limiting VAT repayments, with less than one in five viewing the new measure as...
View articleA huge row is brewing between the Inland Revenue and the construction industry over new rules that will put an end to national insurance and tax avoid...
View articleThe UK's sex industry is estimated to be worth around u750m a yearand its figureheads are among the richest people in the country. Yet theCity shies a...
View articleEuropean tax Commissioner Mario Monti was due to be quizzed on Tuesday night about the legality of the UK’s three-year rule on VAT repayments. G...
View articleThe Government's attempt to limit repayment on overpaid VAT to threeyears cannot be right. Read More...
View articleCuts in tax relief on profit related pay schemes would be politically devastating for the Government, claims Price Waterhouse. PW’s PRP experts ...
View articleComplaints about Inland Revenue tax repayments soared last year despite claims by the Government department that it dealt with 99% of cases within its...
View articleA trial at the Old Bailey is prizing open the mysterious and murky world of Inland Revenue tax investigations. The prostitute girlfriend of the senior...
View articleA ‘carrot and stick’ approach adopted by the Government on LLP reform has failed to deter Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young from plan...
View articleFuture Tax Simplification Bills will receive full consultation overseen by an independent steering committee before they are debated in Parliament. Th...
View articleEven if the Tories win the next election, a 20% income tax rate wouldhave to wait another decade Read More...
View articleHundreds of small and medium-sized practitioners face huge cuts in their income following demands by the Inland Revenue that self-employed workers in ...
View articleFormer tax inspector, Michael Allcock, was treated to a night out gambling in Monte Carlo’s casinos by an Arab millionaire in return for wiping ...
View articleAn Inland Revenue scheme to withdraw lucrative tax breaks for educational trust school fee plans has been ditched after fierce opposition. The Revenue...
View articleEuropean fiscal affairs commissioner Mario Monti has said he expects the arrival of the European Union’s single currency to encourage cooperatio...
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