Issue: Vol 162, Issue 4176

KEITH M GORDON argues that something is rotten in the state of this year's self assessment tax returns

MIKE TRUMAN has been examining the Compliance Handbook provisions on the new penalty regime, and thinks some taxpayers are going to get their fingers burnt

NEIL WARREN considers some of the practical issues of the increased error notification limits that apply from 1 July 2008

HMRC's Stephen Banyard explains to RICHARD CURTIS how far the department has travelled to meet the Carter Programme objectives

Has the taxman taken all we've got? RICHARD CURTIS reviews the eleventh and twelfth sittings on the Finance Bill 2008

Expenses claim when consideration is in two tranches

Tax liability and allowance for back-dated NHS pension

Recovering wrongly paid VAT

Can a partner's capital allowances pool be written off?

letters from TREVOR GREEN, Approved Accounting, and LOUISE MANNING, Cox Manning

from STUART JONES, 3CA Chartered Accountants

from RICHARD LAST, Taxation Services (BBH) Ltd

from DAVID BRODIE, TaxAid

Think-tank warns of long-term impacts of credit crisis