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Missing the catch

05 April 2011 / Mike Truman
Issue: 4299 / Categories: Comment & Analysis , Budget 2011 , IR35 , OTS , Business , Income Tax
The government’s response to proposals by the Office of Tax Simplification is fatally flawed, argues MIKE TRUMAN

KEY POINTS

  • Small Business Review is predicated on integrating tax and NI contributions.
  • Budget only proposes integrating the operation of them.
  • Disincorporation relief is of little relevance in that case.
  • IR35 proposals were only meant to be a stop gap.

Two of the three accountancy firms I worked for Robson Rhodes and Arthur Andersen are no longer in existence (the third though I won’t name it for fear of being the finger of doom is fortunately going from strength to strength).

I worked for Robson Rhodes in the very early 1980s and part of my salary package was 15p per day luncheon vouchers. They were exempt from tax under ESC A2 a concession originally introduced to allow employers to provide meal vouchers of...

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