2021: another extraordinary year

I hope that everybody had a good festive break. On the off chance that you didn’t spend your post-lunch sit down on Christmas day flicking through back copies of the magazine I thought that you might find it interesting if I did it for you. The pages of Taxation give a real insight into what has been going on in the tax world and are a good way of checking the temperature of our profession. So if everything is still a bit of blur after too much seasonal indulgence let me provide a gentle reminder of the tax world in 2021.

Pandemic

Covid-19 underpinned so much of what went on in tax last year. We started the year in lockdown after a fairly miserable Christmas where most family get togethers had to be cancelled – my strongest memory is being allowed only a five-minute conversation with my granddaughter while...