The longest finance bill ever, coming in at a stonking 762 pages (plus more than 400 pages of explanatory notes) was published on Marc...

The Office of Tax Simplification is somewhat underwhelmed by HMRC's MTD plans : " 1.7 Overall, it is difficult to see the bene...

Osborne once (2007) called for the tax system to be simpler, in 2010 he set up the Office of Tax Simplification. Fast forward to the 2...

In July the government commissioned the OTS in July to examine the dividing line between employment and self-employment and “whether it...

As per Andrew Neil : " Tolley's Tax Handbook, the bible of British tax, now 11,500 pages long. Doubled under Gordon Brown. And...

The Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) yesterday published Recommendations to simplify UK’s tax system for small businesses The OTS ...

It seems that, as with the regular cycle of the seasons, there is yet another government "headline catching initiative" to reduce ...

Quel Demage! The Treasury Select Committee has issued a report that concludes that much more work is needed before the tax system is said to...

I see that the Office of Tax Simplification is in favour of merging income tax and national insurance. Renaming the con trick of NI (it most...

The Low Income Tax Reform Group ( LITRG ) has called for there to be a simplification of the language used in HMRC's forms and communica...

A study by PCG ( Professional Contractors Group ) shows that 71% of its contractor members believe that HMRC should be split into a Revenue ...

Unedited, as per The Yorkshire Post : " WHEN in doubt, set up a committee. That is the politician's answer to everything. It is oft...

Yesterday I wrote the following : " This presents a golden opportunity for the government to radically simplify the tax system, thus ma...

The Independent reports that HMRC has warned the government that planned cuts to the public sector, if applied to HMRC, will result in a lo...

Following on from calls by ICAS to improve the tax system Vincent Oratore, the new President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), ...

Yesterday's fantasy budget, based on an unachievable 2011 growth forecast of 3.5%, was remarkable in many respects. Aside from the fact ...

HMRC have produced a draft charter , and are holding a consultation process open until 21 May 2009. The aim to make " the tax and benef...

The Tories recently revealed their plans for removing the dead wood, and there is a lot of it, from the UK tax system during a lecture at th...

HMRC Derby (re yesterday's article) is not alone in facing government and senior HMRC management plans for restructuring. There are also...

The Guardian has apologised to Tesco over its reporting of Tesco's tax affairs. As noted on this site in April , the Guardian wrote an a...