{"id":2454,"date":"2025-08-27T16:50:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T16:50:42","slug":"tax-reform-tensions-a-balancing-act-by-nick-mcleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/tax-reform-tensions-a-balancing-act-by-nick-mcleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax reform tensions: a balancing act by Nick McLeman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nick McLeman explores the tension between efficiency and safeguards in the UK\u2019s tax administration reforms.<br><br>In February of this year, I was pleased to have been asked to join the Contentious Tax Group\u2019s (CTG) committee, leading on the group\u2019s engagement with HMRC.<br><br>I have since had the opportunity to utilise this role to work with HMRC on behalf of the Group to help shape proposals to make the UK tax system easier for taxpayers and agents to engage with. Specifically, via directly inputting into the Tax Administration Framework Review\u2019s (TAFR) ongoing consultation into HMRC\u2019s enquiry and assessment powers, penalties and safeguards.<br><br>The TAFR was established in the Government\u2019s 10-year Tax Administration Strategy with the aim of delivering long-term reform, ensuring that legislation, guidance and processes surrounding UK tax administration are suitable to develop and deliver the UK\u2019s future tax system. <br><br>This current consultation is the continuation of almost two decades\u2019 work attempting to simplify and improve the UK\u2019s tax system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tax-reform-tensions-a-balancing-act-by-Nick-McLeman-.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Tax reform tensions- a balancing act by Nick McLeman.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-b0a75921-f997-4a39-b74f-931a9a4487ca\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tax-reform-tensions-a-balancing-act-by-Nick-McLeman-.pdf\">Tax reform tensions- a balancing act by Nick McLeman<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Tax-reform-tensions-a-balancing-act-by-Nick-McLeman-.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-b0a75921-f997-4a39-b74f-931a9a4487ca\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick McLeman explores the tension between efficiency and safeguards in the UK\u2019s tax administration reforms. In February of this year, I was pleased to have been asked to join the Contentious Tax Group\u2019s (CTG) committee, leading on the group\u2019s engagement with HMRC. I have since had the opportunity to utilise this role to work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-august-september-2024"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}