Brexit update: Why we should all pay attention to the ‘Customs’ Bill
Published on 21 November 2017, this Bill relates to customs, VAT and excise and gives ministers unprecedented power to c...
General Features
General Features
Finance (No.2) Bill 2017-19 goes through its committee stages
Finance (No.2) Bill 2017-19 completed its committee stage on 16 January after just six sittings.
Spotlight on…the CIOT’s Management of Taxes technical sub-committee
The perception that taxes management issues are mainly uninteresting has surely been dispelled in recent years....
Most popular reads
Latest briefings
Scotland update: Air Departure Tax Stakeholder Forum; Administrative Justice Working Group; Scottish Draft Budget
At the end of November, a CIOT representative attended the Scottish Government’s Air Departure Tax (ADT) Forum in Edinbu...
Scotland update: Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Forum; Income Tax Discussion Paper
Land and Buildings Transaction Tax Forum At the end of October, members of CIOT’s Scottish Technical Committee attended...
Help to Save: consultation on draft regulations
The Help to Save scheme was announced in 2016 and is due to begin in April 2018.
Auto enrolment becoming business as usual
Every employer in the UK must now put certain staff into a pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called ‘aut...
OTS review of replacing capital allowances with depreciation
Following on from the meeting with the OTS to discuss unincorporated businesses (reported in December’s Technical Newsde...
SA 302 tax calculations
HMRC recently raised concerns with professional bodies that they are still receiving significant call volumes from agent...
Autumn Budget 2017: A LITRG summary of the Autumn Budget for those on low incomes
In July’s Technical Newsdesk, Gillian Wrigley and Kelly Sizer talked about some of the features of the marriage allowanc...