Hubbard’s annual health check of the tax profession

Readers will see in this week’s issue – as well as on the awards website – the shortlist for this year’s Taxation Awards: congratulations to all who have been shortlisted and commiserations to those who did not quite make it.

As chair of the judges I am in the privileged – if onerous – position of reading all of the entries. This year we had an unprecedented number of submissions and all of my fellow judges agreed with me that the quality of the entries was consistently higher than we have ever had before. This is hugely gratifying but it did mean that our decision on whom to shortlist was harder than ever. Even though the shortlists are longer than usual this year some very good entries didn’t make the final cut. I know that that will have come as a disappointment but there is always next year....