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Ray McCann

Ray McCann is a former president of the CIOT and member of CIOT council. He recently retired as a partner of Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP, but continues to act as a consultant. He is a former HMRC inspector.
Ray received the lifetime achievement award at this year’s Tolley’s Taxation Awards.

 

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A personal retrospective of Ray McCann’s career
A lifetime of flexibility
29 June 2026
Theft or understated profits?
Inaccurate accounts
08 December 2020
The door is closing

The latest measures aimed at countering tax avoidance.

14 June 2016
Discovery and all that
The interaction between discovery, time limits and DOTAS
 
04 August 2015
Be reasonable
RAY MCCANN and CATHYA DJANOGLY consider the extent to which HMRC’s view of excuses has been supported by the First-tier Tribunal
25 October 2011
Tax Arbitrage: the Trawling of the International Tax System
By Nigel Feetham; £79.95
10 June 2011
Revenue Clearances - 'One Stop Shopping'

RAY McCANN of the Inland Revenue explains the new streamlined arrangements for Revenue clearances.

10 November 2008
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