It has been said that we at Accountancy Age tend to put pictures of celebrities on the front page, however tenuously we can link them to the story we&...
View articleFurther to my earlier post about filing deadlines and Taxation magazine, the latest plan is to get everyone to write to their MPs to get them to sign ...
View articleNo doubt Kenneth McFarlane, the Deloitte tax partner, thought there was an important point to be litigated in contesting the divorce settlement with h...
View articleOne other interesting thing Geoff Lloyd said, and this may be a trend noted by those dealing with the taxman before (to whom I apologise for boring th...
View articleGeoff Lloyd’s comments on tax avoidance this week at a LexisNexis Tolley conference on the subject are worthy of a wide audience. Lloyd, directo...
View articleTalking of the John Prescott tax issue, there’s another interesting letter in Taxation magazine this week raising an amusing problem. ‘The...
View articleYou couldn’t exactly say it’s the biggest problem the government is facing, but the row over John Prescott’s tax arrangements does p...
View articleThere’s a line in the Special Commissioners’ verdict on the Barclays disclosures which is truly quite shocking. HMRC has got its hands on ...
View articleI’m not even going to attempt to join in the debate on tax evasion and avoidance currently taking place on the TS blog. But I can offer the foll...
View articleMike Warburton is the 34th most important man in Gloucestershire. So say the compilers of a Gloucestershire Echo poll. But I understand there is one f...
View articleAn announcement arrives from the Chartered Institute of Taxation. The body, the release says, has decided to give its annual ‘Challenge the Chan...
View articleWhat to make of HMRC’s pursuit of city bankers who have been using offshore trading companies to evade capital gains tax? Some have been saying ...
View articleThe £71m deal EDS struck with HM Revenue & Customs over the tax credits system always seemed a bit fishy. Described from the outset as an ‘a...
View articleThis is a slightly childish point, but I’ve convinced myself it’s one worth making nonetheless. The Society of Trust and Estate Practition...
View articleThere are often suggestions made that companies are set to move their headquarters from the UK, in a protest against Gordon Brown’s anti-avoidan...
View articleIs HMRC heading for trouble on filing deadlines? It announced at budget time that it would be moving filing deadlines back by several months. We repor...
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