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 assessments. To recap, the worry was that HMRC were using discovery as a backstop to try to cover up their […]
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 avoidance is not illegal, are opposed to the government and HMRC’s efforts to fight tax avoidance. But the truth is most tax practitioners – and […]
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 can sometimes lose sight of the importance of other areas. Some topics though are too important to […]
By Manj Kalar, ACCA’s Head of Public Sector The momentous decision that was taken by the UK on 23 June to leave the EU will no doubt reverberate for a number of years. Dismantling all the legislation, government funding frameworks developed over 40 years will take quite some time to fully unravel. It will call […]
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