Simon Sweetman picks his way through the controversy surrounding the new IR35 business entity tests.
Simon Sweetman
Personal services companies in the civil service were the lead item on last night’s ‘Newsnight’, 13 years after the notorious IR35 press release was first issued.
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I think we know what happens when a government sets targets for a department or agency and cuts their resources at the same time, exhorting them to be meaner and leaner, explains Simon Sweetman
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Simon Sweetman takes a look back at Budget 2012 and outlines six things the profession didn’t learn from the Chancellor's speech and published documentation.
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The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has now produced its interim review of pensioners’ taxation.
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On 28 February the OTS published its final reports on small business issues, which are broken down into three documents, dealing with the following issues, explains Simon Sweetman:
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So whatever happened to IR35? A question that we have had to ask at intervals ever since the enactment of that sorry piece of legislation, explains Simon Sweetman.
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Simon Sweetman is losing patience with bland assurances about how those with broad shoulders will carry the biggest tax burden.
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2012 could be a year for significant change at the top of HMRC, indeed it could be a year in which the organisation shows that it can recover against the odds, explains Simon Sweetman.
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