The Professional Contractors Group is offering contractors insurance against challenges from the Inland Revenue arising from their IR35 tax liabilitie...
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View articleGordon Brown has revealed what could be his most damaging failing as far as tax simplification campaigners are concerned; he needs an accountant to he...
View articleThe Conservative Party says it will end excessive regulation, ease the burden on business and repeal controversial legislation including IR35 and the ...
View articleTaxpayers need an international bills of rights along the model of Human Rights Bill, including a right to lawfully reduce their tax burden, according...
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View articleThe Inland Revenue has published the case law section of its employment status manual on its internet site. Read More...
View articleUK production costs have risen only 0.5% during April. But had the Climate Change Levy been included they would have risen by almost 1%. Read More...
View articleControversial plans to allow the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise to pass on taxpayers' confidential information to the police have been droppe...
View articleEmbracing the changes that occurred in our print publication in January, AccountancyAge.com today unveils the most substantial redesign in its short h...
View articleJohn Whiting, the newly appointed president of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, will campaign for the creation of a tax policy committee to mirror...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has confirmed interest will not be charged on tax deferred as a result of any financial difficulties brought about by the outbreak ...
View articleThe Liberal Democrats today published their election manifesto promising to raise taxes to pay for a £9.5bn increase in spending on education, health,...
View articleThe UK is lobbying Brussels to abandon VAT on all electronic downloadable goods sold via the internet in the European Union. Read More...
View articleThe Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development has said it will continue with its crackdown on tax havens despite the withdrawl of support ...
View articleJersey is considering cutting personal and corporate tax rates, in effect removing many of the advantages offered to international investors but denie...
View articleThere's nothing like an economic downturn to illustrate the importance of psychology in the business world. Read More...
View articleThe Tories today unveiled an election manifesto which put tax at the centre of Conservative campaigning. Read More...
View articleCharity finance experts last week hit out at Customs & Excise in a debate over VAT charged on fundraising mailshots. Read More...
View articleThe ICAEW's Tax Faculty has said the lack of debate and scrutiny of the 2001 Finance Bill may result in the need for changes to being made on key poin...
View articleBusinesses hit by financial difficulties brought about the foot-and-mouth epidemic will not have to pay interest on deferred taxes. Read More...
View articleIan Hayes, the recently appointed chairman of the Tax Faculty, has said he is disappointed in the smaller amount of 'core tax material' now included i...
View articleGordon Brown has refused to be drawn on rumours that Labour will pledge to leave income tax rates unchanged as it campaigns for re-election. Read More...
View articleTreasury ministers have agreed to amend share ownership plans following debates on the Finance Bill - just days before the legislative process is cut ...
View articleAn Inland Revenue officer has been jailed for three years after he invented false tax repayments. Read More...
View articleAccountancy Age news editor Chris Quick was last night named tax journalist of the year at the Butterworth Tolley tax awards. Read More...
View articleCompensation paid by banks on unclaimed accounts opened by Holocaust victims and frozen during World War II, will be free of tax, the government has c...
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