Philip and Sarah McNeill
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Philip and Sarah McNeill write widely on tax and other matters for both the popular and professional press.
Tax writers and lecturers
15th Jun 2017
Reasonable excuse round-up 2017
Philip and Sarah McNeill round up the latest cases appealing late filing or late payment penalties, where the taxpayer argued – and won –...
HMRC & policy
7th Jun 2017
HMRC trusts register could pose risk of identity theft
A new online trusts register from HMRC set to debut this month poses an unanticipated risk – identity fraud – according to a report from...
HMRC & policy
18th May 2017
Government is 'failing low income taxpayers'
The government is failing to resource and support vulnerable low-income taxpayer access to the tax system. That was the view expressed by...
HMRC & policy
12th May 2017
HMRC: Man meets machine
Take current tax legislation, add a little artificial intelligence of the sort underpinning digitisation, pursue it to its logical...
HMRC & policy
8th May 2017
HMRC notice offends every rule in the book
The following tax investigation opened with the nightmare letter every taxpayer dreads – but in a dramatic turn round, the tribunal held...
HMRC & policy
3rd Mar 2017
Suspensions build in careless error cases
Your client made an error. You take the case to Tribunal. The error may be made in all innocence – but it can still be careless. Who wins...
HMRC & policy
10th Feb 2017
Trading and property allowance side effects
Two new tax allowances making their debut from 6 April are designed to make life easier for Theresa May’s micro-entrepreneurs - the people...
Personal tax
31st Jan 2017
HMRC: Corporate memory loss?
With the trade union representing rank and file HMRC staff calling for a halt to its programme of office closures, HMRC chief executive Jon...
HMRC & policy
14th Oct 2016
A Scottish approach to taxation
It’s not often that there’s the chance to design a tax system from scratch, but north of the border, there have been rumblings about just...
HMRC & policy
17th Aug 2016
MTD: More than we bargained for
The long-awaited MTD consultation documents are with us. Over the next 12 weeks, there is going to be a lot of hard thinking needed and...
HMRC & policy