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Arctic appeal
Mr and Mrs Jones are going to the Court of Appeal to appeal the High Court's decision in Jones v Garnett. They are being supported by the Professional Contractors Group.
Announcing the decision to appeal, PCG chairman Simon Juden said that the PGC was 'pleased to have the generous support' of James Kessler QC, and also thanked various others for supporting the appeal.
The PCG has a fighting fund to help finance legal campaigns, the Arctic appeal being among them. Donations to the legal fund will be used for cases supported by PCG and should be made payable to 'Professional Contractors Group Ltd' and sent to: Legal Department, Professional Contractors Group Ltd, Sovereign Court, 635 Sipson Road, West Drayton, UB7 0JE. Please e-mail kevin.stearns@pcg.org.uk or call 0845 125 9899 for donating via BACS.
If donees wish to donate for the Arctic appeal only, they should specify whether they would like their donations returned to them in the event of PCG ultimately winning the case, or whether they would prefer it to be donated to their choice of charity, e.g. TaxAid.
PCG press release dated 8 June 2005.
HMRC consultation — reply now!
We published the questions raised by the HMRC Small Business Review in Taxation, 26 May 2005, and invited readers to fill in their answers and either send them directly to HMRC, or send them to us so that we could compile a submission on behalf of Taxation readers.
We have had some replies, but we need more to put forward a comprehensive submission. We are extending the deadline for submitting responses to us to Wednesday 22 June. This is an area of great importance to most Taxation readers, and we want to ensure that your views are heard.
Please accept our apologies for not printing the form as the middle pages of the magazine as planned, but if you do not wish to tear out the pages concerned, do photocopy them. Alternatively, subscribers who have registered for free access to our website can find the article by searching the 'Archive' section and then cut and paste the questions into a document.
