Mark Morton, a former tax inspector, recently published an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves MP. Here is that letter. Please note that the views expressed here are the author’s own.
Dear Chancellor
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
Congratulations on your new appointment. We have never met, so I just thought I would briefly introduce myself. My name is Mark Morton. I originally started my career in the old Inland Revenue as a Tax Inspector and then moved into private practice and have spent the last 27 years lecturing to, and advising, SME firms of accountants which act for SME businesses.
In 2015, the document ‘Making tax easier: The end of the tax return’, was published.
The purported aim of the project was stated as follows: “As part of the Government’s vision to modernise the tax system, tax returns will be replaced by digital tax accounts for millions of individuals and businesses. They will bring together each taxpayer’s details in one place, just like an online bank account, so they can register for new services, update their information, and understand quickly and easily what they need to pay – without ever having to complete a tax return again.”
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