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February / March 2026 Issue

Show us the money!

Five years of HMRC customer redress data paints a predictable picture, writes Andrew Park, who assesses and analyses the figures. Fresh data obtained on behalf...

HMRC kicks off image rights debate

Patrick Way KC provides an update on the rules around footballers’ remuneration and their image rights. Tucked away in the Budget 2025 publications was a...

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...