Growing concern over bad tax advice has prompted the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIoT) to seek a ground-breaking partnership with the Inland Reve...
View articleA legal loophole to avoid inheritance tax was closed by the Court of Appeal this week, when the Inland Revenue won its fight against the estate of Lad...
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View articleThe tax law rewrite committee has published its first exposure draft on trading income of individuals. The committee, which plans to revamp 6,000 page...
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View articleA landmark VAT tribunal ruling could pave the way for the recognition of dozens of ‘professions’ for tax purposes. The Chartered Institute...
View articleLocal professionals are under threat from Big Six and others movingin on both their business and their firms. Read More...
View articleCorporate tax and VAT specialist James Darmon has been appointed tax manager at accountants Baker Tilly. Darmon joins the Manchester team from Baker T...
View articleVAT tribunals will now go ahead despite ongoing criminal proceedings. Read More...
View articleSelf-employed construction workers could be forced out of labour agencies if the government backs moves to remove their tax-efficient status. Official...
View articleMalcolm Couch becomes a tax partner at the South Yorkshire practice of Pannell Kerr Forster, which has offices in Sheffield and Doncaster. Couch joine...
View articleNigel Eastaway looks at international experience of anti-avoidancemeasures. Read More...
View articleNorman Renfrew, FD of Manchester Ringway Airport, is proud of makingmoney in difficult circumstances. Read More...
View articleA survey by the Society of Practitioners of Insolvency revealed that tax debt is the main cause of self-employed insolvency. Just 24% of those surveye...
View articleSNP MP Margaret Ewing is calling for Moray in the north of Scotland to be temporarily exempt from paying landfill tax while the area recovers from rec...
View articleTax Returner, a specialist consultant operating in Peterborough, is offering a service to help practices set up systems to file self-assessment forms ...
View articleThe change of government has sparked off a change in tax rates. Thenew Chancellor seems to have a penchant for the figure 10, settingdividend tax rate...
View articleAccusations fly as legislation is hurried to meet summer recessdeadline. Read More...
View articleExperts are expressing fears that changes to the way pension fundsare financed could end up costing the Treasury (UK P)1bn. Read More...
View articleInvolvement with fraudulent returns could mean prison for accountantsresponsible. Read More...
View articleWith the benefit of reflection, advisers to owner-managed businesses think the private sector will be among the Budget’s major beneficiaries. Ac...
View articleExperts welcome the publication of the draft Finance Bill, but urgecaution on making decisions too fast. Read More...
View articleFirst a declaration of interest: Tim Smith is a long-standing friend of Accountancy Age. He wrote his first column for us in November 1982 and contrib...
View articleDisgraced former MP Tim Smith faces a further investigation by the English ICA in the wake of the Downey report into ‘cash for questions’....
View articleFinance directors regarded Gordon Brown’s first Budget as a mixed blessing. Almost half welcomed the bulk of last week’s announcements but...
View articleTax experts and the City have rounded on Gordon Brown’s decision to bar pension funds from reclaiming dividend tax credits. The move – whi...
View articlePredatory tax competition in the European Union could be halted by a voluntary code of conduct for member states. Luxembourg, which until now has defe...
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