Andrew Hubbard is editor in chief of Taxation magazine, published by LexisNexis and has a wider editorial role across many Tolley publications. Andrew initially trained as an inspector of taxes before joining the tax profession. He has worked in a ‘big four’ environment and was a partner in BDO Stoy Hayward and then Tenon before becoming a partner at RSM – a role from which he recently stepped down. He is also past president of both the CIOT and ATT. Email: andrew.n.hubbard@lexisnexis.co.uk.
There was a strange silence on the subject of income shifting in the Budget speech. ANDREW HUBBARD puts on his deerstalker hat and investigates the reason for this. Why was no warning given?
ANDREW HUBBARD applauds HMRC's recent foray into reducing the administrative burden in tax, but is concerned that this can be blurred with political and economic considerations