This week’s opinion

This year is the one in which HMRC’s digital strategy really starts to take shape. In 12 months we may not yet be operating in a wholly digital world but we will I trust have a much better understanding of how it is all going to work and some of the key building blocks will be in place.

There will be no more important topic to us as practitioners (and I include HMRC employees who read Taxation in that grouping) than the transformation that tax administration in the UK is about to undergo. I know there is a lot of scepticism about whether and how this is all going to work. I share some of that scepticism but I have no doubts about the rightness of the overall direction of travel. I also believe that it is essential that the tax community engages in the debate. If...