Paul Aplin

Paul Aplin OBE is a former president of ICAEW and was for 40 years in practice in an independent west country firm. He is a member of HMRC’s Administrative Burdens Advisory Board, Tax Faculty board, CIOT council and CFE tax technology committee. He is adviser to personal tax app untied, Daysium and Dext and is a regular commentator on tax and technology issues. Paul is the author of Technology and Tax Administrations, which can be downloaded free of charge at www.tolley.co.uk/taxtech. The views expressed here are his own.

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PAUL APLIN explains why the time is ripe to engage with HMRC

A philosophical question is often a good way to start the day, says PAUL APLIN

Despite the negative publicity, PAUL APLIN believes the NAO report ‘Engaging with Tax Agents’ contains some sound ideas

The recently formed Powers Implementation Oversight Forum should help ensure that HMRC use their new powers properly, says PAUL APLIN

PAUL APLIN looks at what the Seoul Declaration may mean for your practice

Carter one year on: PAUL APLIN reviews the progress made so far.

PAUL APLIN welcomes Lord Carter's change of mind on tax return filing dates and proposes a monitoring group to drive matters forward.

PAUL APLIN suggests that the 'downside' of Lord Carter's Review of e-filing may outweigh the positive aspects.

PAUL APLIN, writing before it was announced that the new CIS system is to be deferred for a year (see page 114), presciently comments on HMRC's e-service delivery and how to improve it.

Keep your cool if you are visited by Special Compliance Office Inspectors demanding a client's files, advises PAUL APLIN.

PAUL APLIN uses the Revenue's Employment Status Manual to great effect in establishing the self-employed status of a company's workers.

WHAT I WANT is Facts Facts alone are what is needed in life.' (Hard Times, Charles Dickens.)

PAUL APLIN explains how tough it is at the top of A C Mole & Sons.

WHEN I BEGAN researching the firm's centenary history - we notched up our first hundred years on 1 October - I steeled myself for tales of arcane and long forgotten battles with the taxman and of appeals lodged as the seconds ticked toward midnight of the thirtieth day. Instead I found more than a little humour. Although the eponymous A C Mole appears to have been a serious-minded man, not everyone who followed was in the same mould.

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