Lots of people asking about the blog comment policy. I don’t have one. I was going to disable comments, and suggest people instead respond on Twitter, but some people thought comments could be useful for longer-form responses (and allegedly some people aren’t on Twitter). So I’ve enabled them for now, moderated for boring legal reasons, and will see how it goes. If the comments section becomes a ghost town I’ll remove it.
Untaxing on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
I’m presenting and co-writing a new short Radio 4 series, Untaxing. It’s about how tax affects our lives: from the Laffer Curve, to the…
Tax Policy Associates – the plan for 2023
2022 was fun. Here’s the plan for 2023, in rough order of priority: Definitely Probably Maybe Never And Have a great Christmas/Channukah and New…
Who am I? Why am I here?
So I was and remain thankful for all the opportunities Clifford Chance gave me, but after almost 25 years I felt it was time…
The hidden reach of inheritance tax: one in five pensioner households
Fewer than 5% of estates currently pay inheritance tax. But that statistic counts the dead; if we want to understand why inheritance tax is…
How complex is the corporation tax return? And is it getting worse?
In his first major speech as Shadow Chancellor, Andrew Griffith said that the UK corporate tax return has 985 boxes. I used the same…
Property118’s tribunal win – it doesn’t help their clients; it looks vulnerable to appeal
We wrote in 2023 about a complex landlord tax avoidance scheme sold by an unregulated firm called Property118. HMRC subsequently opened enquiries into Property118’s…
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