by David Jones | Jun 22, 2023 | Business Tax, Comments on Global News
HMRC staff are the latest group of workers to join what has been dubbed in the press as a “Summer of Strikes”, with nearly 500 HMRC service advisers based in the tax authority’s Newcastle and East Kilbride offices spending a large part of May and early June...
by David Jones | Jun 8, 2023 | Business Tax, Payroll Services
Our wonderful shadowy army of tax officials have truly excelled themselves this time by issuing over £300 million in IR35 penalties to other government departments, thus effectively fining themselves. This came to light when a government body, UK Research &...
by David Jones | Jun 1, 2023 | Business Tax, VAT
This week’s Blog concerns HMRC planting seeds of doubt on the status of an event organised by a charity to raise funds; and having planted the seeds HMRC proceeded to reap a tax harvest by refusing a VAT claim and combining this with an assessment for underpaid tax...
by David Jones | May 25, 2023 | Business Regulation, Business Tax, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
After ignoring concerns from professional bodies about HMRC service levels and treating the Office of Tax Simplification more like an annoying wasp buzzing in its ear, the government gives the distinct impression that it doesn’t want to listen to tax experts. A budget...
by David Jones | May 4, 2023 | Business Regulation, Business Tax, Corporate Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax Investigations
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) was set up in 2010 as an independent body to advise the Chancellor and provide feedback from consultations with industry, taxpayers, professional bodies and accountants. It came after a major Parliamentary report in 1995 which...
by David Jones | Apr 27, 2023 | Business Tax, Opinion, Personal Finance, Self Assessment
As a tax accountant and blogger, I often think about the UK tax system. The more I looked, the clearer it became that the UK tax system treats certain taxpayers differently to others, which leads to unfairness in terms of the amount of tax paid on similar levels of...