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...
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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 ...
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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...
CIOT branches conference, Warwick, 7–8 March 2016
The recent branches conference was well attended, with representation from around three quarters of the UK branches....
Definitions of residential property for SDLT
The CIOT is contributing to HMRC’s Stamp Taxes project to consider current difficulties on the main statutory definition...
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on purchases of additional residential properties
The CIOT responded to HM Treasury’s consultation on higher rates of stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on purchases of additiona...
Engagement with politicians and parliament
As a not-for-profit organisation, the CIOT’s primary purpose is to promote education in taxation with a key aim of achie...
Draft Finance Bill 2016: round-up of submissions on draft clauses
Introduction The draft Finance Bill clauses were, in the main, published on 9 December, and comments were invited unti...
HMRC service standards
As a member of the Issues Overview Group, I have been involved in obtaining feedback from members over the past year on ...