Wendy Bradley
Member Since: 10th Dec 2015
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Wendy Bradley is a retired tax inspector, now working as a freelance journalist.
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21st Sep 2021
Basis period TIIN: What’s the deal?
There are the two ways of doing a tax impact assessment: the easy way and the hard way. The easy way is to outsource the job to a...
Personal tax
23rd Jul 2021
HMRC complaints review: Stick or plaster
The Adjudicator’s Office reviews and resolves (where possible) complaints against HMRC and the Valuation Office, which are referred to the...
HMRC & policy
15th Jun 2021
Is the Office for Tax Simplification a success?
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) was established in 2010 to advise HMRC on ways it could make the tax system more efficient. The tax...
HMRC & policy
9th Mar 2021
HMRC powers review: An unsolvable problem
Some problems can’t be solved, like choosing the UK entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. It doesn’t matter whether you use a panel of...
HMRC & policy
4th Jan 2021
HMRC juggles its accounting balls
The “balls” in question feature in HMRC’s 2019-20 annual report and are represented by the three circles in the diagram above: HMRC’s own...
HMRC & policy
17th Nov 2020
Tax admin: Sow’s ear repair kit
The Claims and elections review: simplifying administrative processes is something the OTS decided to do itself; it wasn’t commissioned by...
Personal tax
16th Jul 2020
The link between HMRC’s tax gap and Python’s duck
Crystal ball in hand, I can confidently predict that next year’s tax gap will be significantly larger than this year’s. Actually I don't...
HMRC & policy
20th Mar 2020
Sleight of hand on disappearing red tape
Something odd seems to be going on with the way the government measures administrative burden or “red tape”; the cost to taxpayers of...
HMRC & policy
21st Jun 2019
Checking the stats behind the tax gap
Wendy Bradley investigates what the Office for Statistics Regulation had to say about HMRC’s calculation of the tax gap figures. It is...
HMRC & policy
22nd Feb 2019
OTS considers the implications of using tech to simplify tax
The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has asked whether tax simplification will still be needed as technology advances . Wendy Bradley...
HMRC & policy