by Jason Gorringe, Tax-News.com, London 14 July 2017 Cyprus’s Tax Department has released details of a tax amnesty, which entered into force on July 3, 2017. The amnesty is open only to taxpayers who have filed all tax returns due by December 31, 2015, and paid (or arranged to pay) all taxes due as of […]
by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-news.com, Brussels 09 June 2017 Twenty EU member states have reached a deal on the establishment of a new European Public Prosecutor’s Office that will have the power to investigate and prosecute criminal cases affecting the EU budget. The Public Prosecutor’s Office will be an independent and decentralized prosecution office of the […]
by Mary Swire, Tax-news.com, Hong Kong 02 May 2017 The total loss to EU member states from the schemes revealed in the Panama Papers could be in the region of between EUR109bn (USD119bn) to EUR237bn, according to a new study commissioned by the European Parliament’s PANA committee. The Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax […]
By Adrian Henriques, Professor of Accountability and CSR – Middlesex University Traceability matters ‘How far can you trace your responsibilities?’ is not only a difficult philosophical and moral question, it is also a practical and even a commercial one. Before looking at the commercial issues, it is worth a very quick detour to think about […]
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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