Simon Sweetman
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Tax Consultant freelance
29th Apr 2014
IR35 and moral panic
So the House of Lords select committee has reported on personal service companies. There is a lot more to this than IR35 because it is...
Business tax
23rd Jul 2013
OECD tax action plan thrown into doubt
If one believes that governments should exert some control over the free market in some circumstances, even if only the market in drugs, it...
HMRC & policy
20th Feb 2013
Horsemeat: A new political metaphor
It’s not just about horsemeat, is it? asks Simon Sweetman. The parallels drawn so far with Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (about the meat...
Business tax
29th Jan 2013
Big Four grilling: A modern Star Chamber
On 31 January the heads of tax of the Big Four accountancy firms will appear before the Public Accounts Committee , which seems to be...
HMRC & policy
5th Nov 2012
Business record checks: HMRC review
Simon Sweetman explores HMRC's review of its Business Record Checks (BRC) programme, which resumed on 1 November . It would be fair to say...
HMRC & policy
17th Aug 2012
The Olympics: After the show
OK, it’s time to concentrate, explains Simon Sweetman. To concentrate especially on what the government may have slipped past us while we...
People
7th Aug 2012
Simon Sweetman on the Olympics
There was recently a great deal of fuss and hoopla about Olympic tax exemptions in which it was stated that several of the major corporate...
Finance & strategy
26th Jul 2012
Tax and drugs and rock 'n' roll
So we are told it is now 50 years since the Rolling Stones played their first ever gig, explains Simon Sweetman. It may seem slightly...
HMRC & policy
17th Jul 2012
All in it together
Of late there seems to have been rather more news about people being sent to prison for tax evasion than normal, possibly marking a real...
HMRC & policy
26th Jun 2012
What about that Jimmy Carr, then?
Simon Sweetman reflects on the recent headline stories involving the comedian, his K2 tax scheme and prime minister David Cameron. At first...
HMRC & policy