ALLISON PLAGER delves into the Adjudicator's annual report for 2005.
Why be a chartered tax adviser? ALLISON PLAGER finds out.
ALLISON PLAGER delves into HMRC's spring departmental report.
HMRC'S 2005 SPRING departmental report was published recently, showing progress against targets in 2004-05 and expenditure plans. The report covers the former Inland Revenue and Customs, as well as the Valuation Office Agency.
ALLISON PLAGER reports the Finance Bill's progress in the House of Commons.
Has professional fee protection insurance become a must-have for tax practitioners? ALLISON PLAGER reports.
ENQUIRIES INTO CLIENTS' tax affairs have become almost a fact of life since self assessment began back in 1996. Prior to that, it was almost a shameful thing to admit that one's client was being investigated by the Inland Revenue, with the implication that either the adviser had somehow been negligent, or the client had been dishonest.
Call This A Service?
ALLISON PLAGER laments the Revenue's seeming lack of urgency in getting its online systems to work at full capacity.
AM I MISSING something? Was it not the Revenue's big idea, if not overriding priority, to compel employers to file their end of year returns online, on pain of death practically? Yet here we are, 11 May 2005 (date of writing), past the end of the first tax year for which compulsory online filing applies to employers with 250 or more employees and, unbelievably, the Revenue appears to lack confidence that its systems will cope.
ALLISON PLAGER reviews the 2004 report on accountancy software produced by the ICAEW's IT Faculty.
SINCE 2000, THE IT Faculty of the ICAEW has undertaken annual research on accountants' use of information technology. Over 700 firms took part in the research, and the faculty contacted all the firms which were contacted in 2003, as well as contacting new practices to ensure that the overall profile of firms approached in 2004 equated to that in 2003.
Is the Revenue doing all it can to call in the money that taxpayers owe? ALLISON PLAGER reports.
ALLISON PLAGER reports Revenue research into its short self-assessment tax return.
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