Robin Williamson

Robin Williamson MBE CTA (Fellow) is an author and commentator on tax, welfare and public policy. He was technical director of the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s Low Incomes Tax Reform Group from 2003 to 2018 and a part-time senior policy adviser at the Office of Tax Simplification from 2018 to 2019.

Robin was awarded the lifetime achievement award at the Taxation Awards 2020.

Robin’s book Taxpayer Safeguards and the Rule of Law has just been published by Claritax Books (tinyurl.com/y7dyhzua).

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Life lessons in tax

Question of balance

From cradle to grave

An outrageously unfair result

Correspondence from readers on topical subjects.

ICAEW Tax Faculty Conference.

Why living together, formally or informally, matters in tax.

How the self-employed claim universal credit

The groundbreaking judgment that meant three taxpayers did not have to follow the requirement to file VAT returns online

ROBIN WILLIAMSON explains how to challenge tax credits overpayments

Disabled trusts: what is the latest position? ROBIN WILLIAMSON reports.

Following Alan Pink's article 'Data Protection and the Taxman' (Taxation, 31 January 2002 at pages 413 to 415) and Catherine Pearce's comments on it in Taxation, 21 March 2002 at pages 600 and 601, readers may be interested to know that the Revenue has a fairly well established policy on data protection matters based on the 1998 Act. It just seems to have been reticent about publicising it.

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