So advisers have reported some small companies have received demands for overdue monthly payments from HMRC when they are actually allowed to pay them...
View articleSo Wolseley has upped sticks to Switzerland. Cue the latest round of media coverage warning of a mass exodus from the UK. Maybe it’s time for a...
View articleSpending cuts? What spending cuts? The enforcement division at HMRC is being given a £900m injection so it can bring more of those pesky tax avoiders ...
View articleSo Robert Gaines-Cooper is taking one last shot at overturning HMRC’s ruling about his residency status. Read More...
View articleThe fiscal fur only stopped flying for a brief moment while the new coalition government indulged in some hearty backslapping, but its now back to bus...
View articleThe UK woke up this morning to the prospect of a hung parliament. On an overcast day, business groups warned that clouds also loomed on the horizon f...
View articleThis is just a brief note to say goodbye: I’m leaving Accountancy Age, and will not be writing this blog any longer. Today is my last day. I hop...
View articleI don’t know about you, but I’m thinking it’s about the right time of year for some wild speculation about when the PBR will be. So,...
View articleSo – Dave Hartnett has become the new ‘permanent secretary for tax’ – a new role designed especially for him. As far as the de...
View articleJust what is the influence, positive or negative, of the Taxpayers’ Alliance? Ross Clark has a crack at registering the campaign body’s im...
View articleA philosophical question about tax for you this morning… Gordon Brown wants to force energy companies to encourage energy efficiency but the com...
View articleThe ongoing row over the windfall tax on energy companies seems to miss a fairly fundamental point to me. There are plenty of good opinion pieces out ...
View articleThe government’s plan to offer a stamp duty holiday has unravelled at extraordinary speed. I was in two minds as to whether or not to discuss it...
View articleI haven’t really known what to make of the Tories’ plans on tax simplification. Tax complexity is one of those tricky topics that I think ...
View articleJust a short post to say – if you’re interested in the saga of former HMRC chairman Paul Gray’s payoff, Sue Cameron in the FT has so...
View articleAs someone who has been writing about the Vodafone CFC case over the last two years like an overexcited puppy, I can hardly turn around now and say th...
View articleIf Alistair Darling is to signal a u-turn on the foreign profits rules, he’s going to have to do better than this: Clearly, we want to look at h...
View articleThis is very good. Mark Hoban, the shadow parliamentary secretary to the Treasury, has dug out the Treasury’s figures for staff illness caused b...
View articleI think Mike Devereux of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation has posed the policy dilemma on the foreign profits move quite well. In last weekR...
View articleI thought Joel Walters’ interview in the CIOT/ATT journal Tax Adviser was interesting not only for what he said, but also for the fact that it w...
View articleThe Treasury Select Committee’s announcement that it is looking into tax havens looks significant. Will this up the pressure on small offshore c...
View articleThe Tories have been quick off the draw in suggesting that they might drop the taxation of foreign profits for companies, the issue that is driving co...
View articleThe story going round about ‘what Gordon told Tony’ about the 10p tax rate beggars belief. We are asked to believe that Gordon, quizzed b...
View articleAn extraordinary suggestion appeared in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday. In an article on companies being disgruntled with the UK taxman, an (unnamed) ...
View articleShire’s decision to go offshore is certainly exercising a few minds. I’m told by Bill Dodwell of Deloitte that a further ‘two or thr...
View articleWho is going to be the winner in the Guardian/Tesco battle? Well, actually, I am not going to answer that question – at least not directly. I...
View articleI don’t mean to be partial, but Tesco’s threat to take on The Guardian over its tax avoidance articles does, in the words of the paper, se...
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