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Self defence?
I am grateful to Ian Brownhill for his article on the Justice Gap blog with the news that the government is changing what happens if you are accused of a crime. From this autumn, if you are accused...
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Response on behalf of Mark Prisk. Sort of.
You may remember that, on 26 June, I published an Open Letter To Mark Prisk about the small firms impact test, in which I wondered whether he actually knew that such a thing existed, and that he was...
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Regulated justice
You might be remember that I blogged a while ago about the changes to legal aid and suggested the new regulations might be vulnerable to judicial review because the MoJ hadn’t dotted the “i”s and...
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This is not a consultation
There was another consultation which closed last week, on the Office of Tax Simplification’s proposal that there should be a “disincorporation relief”. This is aimed at the one and two person...
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Citizens are stakeholders. Discuss.
I have blogged before that I think there’s something fundamentally awry in the tax consultation process. While it’s entirely laudable that the government wants to make tax changes in a considered way,...
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Today’s round up
We have three consultations closing today. Let’s start with The Use of Rebated Fuel for Gritting in Rural Areas. OK then: there’s a kind of fuel (“red diesel”) used in farming etc which has a lower...
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Cable cars. Seriously.
There’s a consultation closing today on whether it’s a good idea to apply a reduced rate of VAT to cable cars. This is because, under the arcane VAT rules (and why do we never talk about setting up a...
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Starbux redux
So the original Reuters investigation into Starbucks’ tax position reported that There is no suggestion Starbucks has broken any laws. Indeed, the group’s overall tax rate – including deferred taxes...
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Language, Timothy!
Back to the Mail Online again today for the story about the top dozen UK companies that pay no tax. Serendipitously, there’s some thoughtful material on the same subject from Robert Maas in the last...
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A Modest Proposal
The problem with actors is that they never know whether they’re going to make any money or not – like a minimum wage worker on a zero hours contract. The work they do is usually significantly more...
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VAT on ebooks
As it says on my twitter bio, I’m By day, PhD Law student researching tax simplification and better regulation; by night, writer of science fiction and fantasy. so today my Facebook and twitter feeds...
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Small firms impact: not waving but drowning [Part 3 of 4]
We have finally reached page A113 of the TIIN, the second half of the table of impacts. In terms of the seven questions, we are now past “what does it cost/raise” to the final three questions which...
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Crickhowell: the town that went offshore
“Either we all pay tax, or none of us do!” There are just three things I want to say about The Town That Took on the Taxman, the show originally trailed as the “Town that Went Offshore“. I missed it...
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The scores on the doors
In February the Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy asked whether HMRC had “assessed the effect” of MTD on “freelance workers in the creative industries” and “other specific sectors”. The answer from Jane...
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