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SIMON OWEN, editor of Taxation from 1984 to 1987, recalls magazine life in the 1980s
KEY POINTS
- Vestiges of an antiquated tax system still present in the 1980s.
- Computer programmes have simplified tax computations.
- Immeasurable increase in information from official sources.
- Less secretive attitudes.
Twenty years ago when Taxation was celebrating its sixtieth anniversary I had been editor for three years. The current editor Mike Truman has kindly invited me to a reception to celebrate Taxation's eightieth and has asked me to sing for my supper by providing some 'reminiscences of what tax was like' in the old days.
My first thought was that if I can now have 'reminiscences' I must be getting old. The second was that having worked in tax since 1968 I really have been around longer than most people and can remember (reminisce about?) a very different world. It was...
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