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What are the implications of the additional fiscal support given to the creative industries in the Spring Budget, and do the changes provide value for money?
TaxWatch introduces the latest Government consultation into regulating tax advice market.
The TaxWatch team focuses its thoughts on a few areas of the Budget statement it found particularly interesting, from a tax compliance and administration standpoint.
Abolishing preferential tax rules for furnished holiday lets owners will only raise the speculated revenue if the compliance rules are carefully thought out.
HMRC’s effectiveness is being held back by legacy IT systems, staff and pay reductions and a lack of effective workforce planning.
There are fundamental issues around the subject of compliance for HMRC, which needs, among other things, a proper workforce plan with trained and motivated staff able to deal with all aspects of compliance.
A report about trends in case numbers opened by a niche HMRC team requires a bit of context to judge whether the question it poses is the correct one.
HMRC’s increasingly poor telephone service is impacting its ability to collect the right amount of tax and damaging the wider economy.
Misunderstandings and confusing media coverage last week have created uncertainty about how transactions made via online platforms such as Vinted, Ebay and Airbnb should be taxed.
TaxWatch has lodged a formal complaint to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in respect of its member, Douglas Barrowman.
A recent story about multinational companies underpaying billions of pounds of UK tax caught our attention, but it turns out the figures aren’t quite what they seem.