Understanding how the effect of changes in tax law can affect peoples' behaviour is vital. This means when new environmental tax measures are to be introduced, the behavioural aspects need to be considered carefully to ensure that the environmental objectives sought by the Government can be achieved. This is true of any new legislation or proposal but given how high the climate change stakes are, it becomes essential to get the tax measures right. This is why the CIOT commissioned the report.
Visit The Chartered Institute of Taxation's Green Tax Report micro site to read chapters online, download the full report and submit your comments.
The incoming President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), Patrick Stevens, will today tell CIOT members that the tax profession should be prepared to speak up in defence of the UK tax system when it comes under fire unfairly.
Outgoing President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), Anthony Thomas, will today comment on cost, tax avoidance, and "standing up to HMRC."
Attacks on HMRC for making 5.1 million ‘errors’ in people’s tax for the year 2011-12 are unfounded and derive from a misunderstanding of what the PAYE system is currently capable of achieving, says the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITR)
A report published today (Wednesday 9 May) by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) highlights the growing problem of ‘digital exclusion’. It provides new evidence that government efforts to move services and transactions online are disadvantaging older people, those with disabilities and the self-employed in particular.
The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has said that HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) assessment of the impact of the introduction of Real Time Information (RTI) on small employers is inadequate.
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