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NAO wide of the mark
By Jason Piper, technical officer, ACCA Every so often you come across a statistic that makes you stop and think. For example, did you know that more coal mines were closed by Labour governments than...
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Help! I’ve got a letter from HMRC! (take 2)
By Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax, ACCA Another year… but not another new HMRC problem; it's actually last year's underpayment and overpayment problem continuing into this year. So, new letters will...
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Reasonable excuse
By Jason Piper, technical officer, ACCA When is the exceptional “reasonable”, and the predictable “unreasonable”? When you’re talking tax of course – or to be more precise, the excuses people have for...
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The Main Event
By Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax, ACCA While everyone else was watching the phone-hacking debate in the Commons yesterday, I was at the much more exciting ‘Administration and effectiveness of HMRC:...
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HMRC computer says no?
By Jason Piper, technical officer, ACCA To people of a certain age, programmable digital computers were The Future, promising 3 day working weeks, the end of manual labour and untold leisure time. For...
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HMRC Discovery powers
By Jason Piper, technical officer, ACCA It’s not news that HMRC sometimes struggles to do its job. A cynic might suggest that the recent Treasury Select Committee (‘TSC’) report on The Administration...
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UK-Swiss tax deal – a bird in the hand…
By Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax, ACCA The UK government are calling it a ‘victory’; critics are saying it’s unfair to honest taxpayers. So, which is the UK-Swiss tax deal? It’s actually a bit of...
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A guide to high income child benefit charge
Glenn Collins, head of ACCA UK technical advisory, take a look at how the new changes to child benefit affect you The child benefit charge on ‘high income’ families is now part of our legislation....
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Where’s corporation tax going?
By Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation, ACCA I gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs recently about corporation tax and how revenue is now being secured from...
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Autumn Statement 2013: Comment from ACCA’s experts
By Steve Rudaini, PR manager, ACCA This is ACCA’s response to the UK Autumn Statement 2013: The UK Economy Manos Schizas, ACCA Senior Economic Analyst, said: “Unlike previous Budgets and Autumn...
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Making tax digital
By Jason Piper, ACCA’s Senior Manager, Taxation and Business Law If the only tool you have is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. If you spend your whole time focused on just one topic, you...
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Fight hard but fight fair
By Yen-Pei Chen, ACCA’s Corporate Reporting and Tax Manager Reading news report about tax avoidance, one might be forgiven for thinking that tax practitioners, unhappily repeating the mantra that tax...
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HMRC face hard questions on software
By Jason Piper, ACCA’s Senior Manager, Tax and Business Law Those of you with long memories (or chronic insomnia) may remember a blog I wrote in 2011 on the topic of HMRC’s approach to discovery...
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