Marriage allowance
The marriage allowance should allow spouses or civil partners to allocate 10% of their personal allowance to their spous...
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General Features
A LITRG guide for the armed forces
Armed forces personnel can find their tax position difficult to navigate due to several reasons: the complex system of a...
Scotland update: meeting with the chief executive of Revenue Scotland
Representatives of the CIOT’s Scottish technical sub-committee, the Scotland Hub and the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (L...
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Working Together update
Members involved in the Working Together (WT) initiative will know that it is changing.
HMRC’s Agent Account Manager Service
As those involved with Working Together will know, specialist agent managers (SAMs) work with agents to resolve issues t...
Tax credit and tax-free childcare: update
Budget 2016 included further details of the rollout of tax-free childcare, and regulations made immediately before the s...
The Office of Tax Simplification – a permanent, statutory body
Tax policy – simplification The late Lord Geoffrey Howe once picturesquely compared the task of the Tax Law Rewrite Pro...
Shifting sands of the UK tax policy and the tax base
The CIOT has responded to the Treasury Committee’s inquiry into the ‘shifting sands of UK tax policy and the tax base’....
The Budget, the Finance Bill and beyond…The consultation process rolls on
A recurrent theme of Technical Newsdesk is that consultation in advance of new measures helps to ensure that the policy ...
Tax in the headlines
There has been an exceptionally high level of public interest in tax recently and this has been especially visible in th...