Helen Thornley
Member Since: 19th Oct 2018
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Helen Thornley has a focus on personal and capital taxes. Initially training as an accountant before moving to tax, she worked in practice until her appointment as a technical officer in 2017. She also has an interest in the history of tax.
ATT Technical Officer The Association of Taxation Technicians
6th Mar 2024
Surprise cut to top rate of capital gains tax
In an unexpected move in the Budget today, the Chancellor announced a cut in the top rate of capital gains tax (CGT), which applies to the...
HMRC & policy
1st Mar 2024
Is fiscal drag getting you down yet?
Louis XIV’s finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert is said to have declared that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as...
HMRC & policy
16th Feb 2024
The downs and ups of capital gains tax
At the start of February, the prime minister published a summary of his income and gains for 2022/23 . Included with details of his...
Personal tax
22nd Dec 2023
Cryptoasset holders urged to use disclosure scheme
In November, HMRC launched a new voluntary disclosure route to allow individuals with undeclared capital gains tax (CGT) or income tax...
HMRC & policy
17th Nov 2023
Savers ride the tax tide due to rising rates
A freedom of information request obtained by investment platform, AJ Bell showed that up to 2.7 million people will need to pay tax on...
HMRC & policy
19th Oct 2023
Playing the long game with inheritance tax
For a tax that only affects a small proportion of the public – and makes a modest contribution to UK tax receipts – inheritance tax (IHT)...
Personal tax
4th Aug 2023
Testing, testing – HMRC ponders a new piloting approach
Back in April, as part of a discussion document titled Creating innovative change through new legislative pilots , HMRC proposed the idea...
HMRC & policy
19th Jan 2023
Cryptoassets on the slide as value freezes
Welcome to the crypto winter, the latest buzzword for the downturn in the state of all things crypto. Prices have fallen, large...
Personal tax
19th Aug 2022
New guidance as trust registration deadline looms
By 1 September 2022, all express trusts in existence at 6 October 2020 should be registered on the Trust Register via the Trust...
HMRC & policy
3rd Aug 2022
HMRC calls for evidence on taxation of DeFi transactions
When HMRC published its guidance on decentralised finance (DeFi) transactions in February 2022 it proved unpopular. Following a statement...
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