Spot the difference: Ackroyd and Kelly – TV presenters and tax

What’s the difference between Christa Ackroyd and Lorraine Kelly? No: it’s not the start...

BKL and Leadership Through Sport & Business: working together

The partnership between a social mobility charity and a firm of chartered accountants is...

VAT default surcharge – beware!

In Porter & Co (TC 07028), a decision released on 6 March 2019, a...

Making Tax Digital and VAT: getting ready for April

Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT is imminent. VAT-registered businesses with a taxable turnover...

DIY VAT Housebuilders Scheme: appeal disallowed, but only just

This appeal, that of Mr David Cosham ([2019] UKFTT TC06985), concerned electric blinds installed...

Webinar: Share Disposals – Entrepreneurs’ Relief and Investors’ Relief

At our tax webinar on Tuesday 12 March, with the Finance Act 2019 now in...

Women, let’s look at the real issue: it’s still a man’s world

As I sit browsing social media, I find myself becoming more and more cynical...

The other deadline: year-end tax planning

In the excitement (not sure that’s the right word, but we’ll go with it...

2018/19 year-end strategies

As the end of the tax year draws closer, it is important to review...

Auto enrolment in 2019: minimum contributions are changing

Millions of employees have been automatically enrolled in a workplace pension since auto enrolment...

Retained payments and deposits: how the VAT treatment is changing

Retained payments and deposits: how the VAT treatment is changing Revenue and Customs Brief...

VAT’s a piece of cake? Pulsin brownies and zero rate

Was the sale of “Raw Choc Brownies”, which had been treated as standard rated...