Welcome to the January 2020 Technical Newsdesk
In previous introductions to Technical Newsdesk, I have mentioned the difficulties of having to write articles well in a...
Welcome to the December 2019 Technical Newsdesk
Having joined the CIOT just a month earlier, and having largely been a VAT specialist throughout my tax career, I had pa...
The advent of the new Agent Forum
How often when dealing with client affairs have you had to ask HMRC to correct something they had done, or found that th...
Welcome to the November 2019 Technical Newsdesk
Tax has become such a fluid and uncertain area that you never know what is going to happen in that intervening period....
Give us your thoughts on Tax Adviser
Which areas interest you the most? How well is your area of tax covered? Do you read the magazine in print or online?...
Welcome to the October Technical Newsdesk
As with many dates, it has a number of interesting or significant anniversaries, such as the Supreme Court taking over t...
HMRC phone lines and escalating systems issues
As I act as the CIOT Technical Officer on our Working Together sub-committee (alongside Helen Thornley for the ATT), and...
Welcome to the August Technical Newsdesk
It’s probably fair (and pleasing) to say that this year there were few surprise measures.
Making Tax Digital for VAT
7 August 2019 is the deadline for the first quarterly VAT returns due under MTD (June to August, or ‘stagger one’ return...
Welcome to the July 2019 Technical Newsdesk
At the time of writing the country is looking for a new Prime Minister, or perhaps more accurately, the Conservative Par...