Missing out
On 15 February, the Treasury Committee published its third report looking at the tax and economic effects of Coronavirus...
How to use third-party data
In 1944, the Pay As You Earn system was introduced and about 12 million adults started to find their employer deducting ...
The costs of a wealth tax
Two academics and a barrister (Dr Arun Advani, Emma Chamberlain and Dr Andy Summers) – together called the Wealth Tax Co...
Capital gains tax
The Office of Tax Simplification published its first report on its
Can we make life easier?
The Office of Tax Simplification has just published its report ‘Claims and elections review:
The complexity of simplification
One of the seemingly perennial questions concerns what exactly the Office of Tax Simplification is supposed to do....
The tax system of the future
On 21 July, the Treasury and HMRC published a ten-year Tax Administration Strategy (see bit.ly/31b47QI), introduced by t...
Finding a simpler way
On 20 July, the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) published an evaluation update on its Corporation tax review and its ...
Asymmetric information
One of the key topics for tax administrations concerns what academics might call asymmetric information....
Responses to the pandemic
For most of the last decade, the work of the OECD’s tax team – the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration – has been f...