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December / January 2026 Issue
Why don’t people trust HMRC?
Mike Lewis explains some of the reasons for the record low level of trust in the UK’s tax authority.
HMRC is never going to win...
WhatsApp: blessing or curse
Nick Scott offers some thoughts on risk governance when using WhatsApp for work communications.Businesses large and small are increasingly using WhatsApp messages as a...
October / November 2025 Issue
AI: tread carefully…
Jesminara Rahman explains why artificial intelligence cannot, and should not, replace the professional tax adviser.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an inescapable presence in modern...
Where’s the humanity?
After five years of scrutiny from HMRC, Buzzacott managed to prove gifts to a client. were non-taxable. Barbara Bento and Mia Robinson relate a...
August / September 2025 Issue
Apostle: the story so far
Paul Rosser relates the sorry tale of Apostle Accounting, since liquidated but still the subject of a police investigation Apostle Accounting Limited was incorporated...
Apostle Accounting: notes on a scandal
Lee Osborne, a former client of Apostle Accounting, gives a personal perspective about the nightmare he and his family endured after signing up with...
June / July 2025 Issue
Red letter days
How fair to claimants and advisors is HMRC’s seemingly scattergun approach to issuing FIS letters? Here Paul Rosser shares some thoughts.Back in 2022, it...
What’s up with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax?
No group affected by the proposed changes to the tax regime is properly prepared: not advisors, not taxpayers – and not even HMRC themselves,...
April / May 2025 Issue
Tackling the schemers
HMRC is finally fighting back against the promoters of anti-avoidance schemes. Amanda Perrotton explains all.
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT), introduced in the Finance Act...
Is HMRC really closing in on promoters?
Mala Kapacee runs the rule over HMRC’s latest move to tackle tax avoidance. So will it really tackle the deep-lying issues?
HMRC has (finally) had...
February / March 2025 Issue
Disguised Remuneration: a possible resolution
Matt Hall focuses on what he hopes will be the denouement of the Loan Charge ‘scandal’
In the 2024 Autumn Budget, the government promised to...
The Loan Charge scandal: what next?
Matt Hall explains the part HMRC had to play in the so-called Loan Charge scandal
The announcement on 23 January 2025 of the Loan Charge...