Tax developments in ten years since 2012

Earlier this year Claritas Tax was delighted to win ‘best independent tax consultancy firm’ at the 2022 Taxation Awards. As anyone who watched the videos recorded post-win will testify it meant a huge amount to us as a firm particularly coming in the same year we celebrated our tenth birthday; indeed our award submission featured some cute photographs of our team peering out at the judges with their own decade-old toothy grins. But while we are enjoying celebrating our own milestone we thought it would also be interesting to look back across the UK tax system’s last ten years to see where we were back then what’s changed and whether there are any lessons to be taken forward as we face what is likely to be a difficult start to the next decade.

Sunnier climes of 2012

Back in 2012 we were...