Special Commissioners' Decisions
ALLISON PLAGER and MIKE TRUMAN report some decisions from the Special Commissioners.
Tale of woe
Tax Administration
Enabling Letters — The Sequel
MIKE TRUMAN reports on the ongoing war of words about enabling letters.
IN ONE OF his last 'Comment' pieces as consulting editor, John Newth looked at the Inland Revenue's so-called 'enabling letters' ('Enabled to Comply', Taxation, 29 July 2004 at page 447). In it, he quoted a response that a subscriber to AccountingWEB had suggested might be sent to the Inland Revenue.
Comment
Whisky Galore
MIKE TRUMAN analyses the implications of the Mars and Distillers cases for add back of depreciation.
ALLISON PLAGER and MIKE TRUMAN summarise some Special Commissioners' decisions.
News
Other news
Standing on the shoulders …
Round the outside of the £2 coin there is a quote from a letter written by Sir Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke in 1576, saying that Newton had only managed to achieve so much in science because he was 'standing on the shoulders of giants' — the scientists that had preceded him.