Neville Russell has launched a telephone helpline to aid taxpayers struggling with self-assessment. Callers to Tax Advice by Phone will receive the fi...
View articleThe profit-related pay (PRP) scheme is ‘not achieving its stated objectives’ and should be scrapped, according to The Institute for Fiscal...
View articleLiberal Democrats suggest increased taxes can be popular if the moneyraised is prudently spent. Read More...
View articleThe World Bank has chosen the Scots ICA to run a series of courses for trainee accountants in Russia. The institute is working with the Russian Nation...
View articleBA's Derek Stevens has transformed the way the airline's financedepartment operates. As he tells Leon Hopkins, business acumen andanalytical skills ar...
View articleTaxpayers’ agents are guilty of needlessly whipping up ‘aggro’ with the Inland Revenue and blaming the government department for the...
View articleThe massive re-organisation of financial accounting procedures at troubled car parking giant, National Car Parks, has resulted in the resignation of f...
View articleLabour’s proposal to axe tax-relief on private health insurance for the over-60s will hit both the elderly and the NHS. It would lead to premium...
View articleShadow Chancellor Gordon Brown is keeping his top rate tax options open despite Labour party leader Tony Blair’s claim to have no plans to ̵...
View articlePoor definition of a ‘debt on security’ lost Tarmac Roadstone Holdings its Special Commissioners appeal against tax on a capital gain of o...
View articleCustoms & Excise’s embattled VAT policy head, Martin Brown, has launched a vigorous defence of his decision to suspend and then continue ove...
View articlePotential abuse of the Rent A Room tax break scheme has been stamped out by the Inland Revenue. The Revenue added a clarifying sentence to this year&#...
View articleKPMG remains king of the Big Six auditors, increasing its lead over rivals as the firm with the most stock market clients. According to statistics rev...
View articleHundreds of tax payers look set to lose rebate claims for overpaid tax worth almost z6m on life assurance policies they hold with Legal & General....
View articlePublic services minister Roger Freeman last week pledged the Government to finding a solution to the liability burden faced by auditors. Speaking at t...
View articleA string of harsh restrictions are hampering the use of reinvestment relief on capital gains tax, experts claim. The relief allows individuals to defe...
View articleDirectors' pay is still a sore subject, despite the intervention ofthe Greenbury Report. Simon Garrett looks at the balancing act betweencorporate rew...
View articleTax cuts of up to # 1bn are called for by the Confederation of BritishIndustry in its annual Budget submission, writes Jon Bunn Read More...
View articleLosing your job may be a traumatic experience but, as Ian Hunterexplains, don't be so stunned as to forget your legal entitlements or yourability to n...
View articleReuters may have to start lobbying for the abolition of advance corporation tax or even move its tax domicile, according to City analysts, who say tha...
View articleThe head of VAT policy at Customs & Excise has launched an unprecedented defence of the Government’s decision to limit VAT repayments to thr...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has dispatched self-assessment information packs to more than 70,000 registered tax agents. But while advisers have welcomed the bo...
View articleTax advisers face a major threat to their livelihoods from hundreds of redundant Inland Revenue inspectors under a new scheme unveiled this week by th...
View articleThe Inland Revenue plans to scrap its current system of assessing the effectiveness of its investigators, in favour of a new system based on a more &#...
View articleCitizens’ Charter standards at Customs & Excise and the Inland Revenue have risen over the past five years. The only Charter mark to show a ...
View articleNew taxes are needed to ensure fair play in the energy market after deregulation takes effect in 1998, according to a left-leaning research body, repo...
View articleDiscovery of Coopers & Lybrand’s potential involvement in the Cantrade scandal has far-reaching implications for Jersey’s financial re...
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