In the news: March 2022
‘Half a million Scots will pay a staggering 54.25% on wages from April, it has emerged...
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Gordon Brown presented with honorary fellowship
Former Chancellor and Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been presented with an honorary fellowship of the CIOT....
Buyers beware: warnings over SDLT proposals
ATT and CIOT have both expressed support for a clamp down on stamp duty land tax (SDLT) avoidance around mixed-use prope...
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Political update: April 2022
CIOT, ATT and LITRG work with politicians from all parties in pursuit of better informed tax policymaking. The govern...
Experts debate windfall taxes
Economists and tax advisers differed as to whether a windfall tax should be imposed on oil and gas company profits, in t...
Better Budgets: five years on
In January 2017, CIOT, the Institute for Government and the Institute for Fiscal Studies published our joint report: ‘Be...
Political update: January 2022
CIOT comments on the residential property developer tax, insurance premium tax, climate change and tax policy, uncertain...
Political engagement: 2021
In 2021, CIOT (including LITRG) and ATT met or engaged with 68 different politicians at Westminster, the Scottish Parlia...
Basis periods: government commits to explore further easements
The government has accepted recommendations from a House of Lords sub-committee that it should reassess the compliance c...
Record viewers for LITRG webpages
Visitors to the websites of CIOT’s Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) hit another new high in 2021, with more than 6 m...