Nick Huber
Member Since: 14th Jun 2011
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I’m a specialist business journalist and have a particular interest in tax and technology.
Freelance journalist
27th Oct 2016
MTD mainstream comms coming next year
The Making Tax Digital consultation ends early next month but in the absence of a national marketing and advertising campaign many small...
HMRC & policy
21st Oct 2016
Ingenious wins HMRC press briefing appeal
HMRC broke its duty of confidentiality to taxpayers when it discussed a company’s controversial film investment schemes with journalists,...
HMRC & policy
23rd Sep 2016
HMRC re-organisation gets mixed reaction
HMRC has re-structured about every year since it was created in 2005. Will this one improve the service for taxpayers? Accountants reckon...
HMRC & policy
22nd Sep 2016
Accountants can help reduce tax gap
Accountants can help reduce the UK’s £34bn “ tax gap ” by making company accounts clearer, including their clients’ foreign transactions,...
General practice
19th Aug 2016
HMRC consults on lease accounting changes
HMRC has asked for views on changes tax rules for the leasing, focusing only on plant and machinery in response a new international...
HMRC & policy
18th Aug 2016
HMRC defeats Icebreaker scheme again
The upper tier tribunal has upheld a 2014 decision by the first tier tribunal that the Icebreaker investment scheme was known and...
Personal tax
18th Aug 2016
MTD third party data: The challenges
HMRC this week set out how it plans to expand the use of “third party” information from banks, employers and pension providers to make the...
HMRC & policy
17th Aug 2016
Sage data leaked by disgruntled employee
Sage is investigating a data breach that may have affected between 200 and 300 large UK companies. On Monday, shares in the accounting...
Accounting software
16th Aug 2016
Ingenious wins partial victory over HMRC
A film investment scheme by Ingenious Media was trading with a “view to a profit”, and therefore was not a tax avoidance scheme, a tax...
HMRC & policy
11th Aug 2016
Former Deloitte boss challenges Big Four
John Connolly, the former head of Deloitte in the UK, is working with a private equity firm to build an accounting business to rival the...
General practice