Gone phishin'
The recent WannaCry ransomware attacks brought chaos to a large number of organisations across the world and again raise...
General Features
General Features
Scanning horizons
‘Where’s the Summer Finance Bill?’ was the frequent cry of tax advisers, wondering whether five hundred pages of legisla...
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Constant change
As my husband observed: ‘If you are going to update a tax book, do it quickly’.
‘I never thought it would come to this...’
Sometimes apparently random incidents gel together in one’s mind. And aren’t things meant to come in threes?...
Money Laundering Regulations 2017
Although the draft Regulations keep the principal requirement that you must perform client due diligence (CDD) before yo...
Changing the game
In the March 2015 budget the then Chancellor George Osborne announced the demise of the ‘complex, costly and time consum...
Ransomware attacks
The idea of sending an email with a nefarious attachment or hyperlink to a compromised website in hopes an end-user will...
The evidence
Using evidence to inform policy is a key mantra of modern government, not least when it comes to developing tax policy....
A mostly modest affair
As we move towards the nirvana of a single annual fiscal event, the Spring Budget seemed like it should be a modest affa...