Issue : Vol 194, Issue 4966

Great weekly team effort to produce Taxation

A Christmas tale

Panto time

New ways to tackle non-compliance

Gift of an hour’s pay

In praise of masterful inactivity

Sean Randall discusses stamp duty land tax group relief and bad purpose.

Private schools

New year resolutions for a better practice.

Tax implications of farmland passed on during mediation. My client is a sole trader farmer. One of his adult sons has been actively assisting his father, on a full time basis, essentially from his...

Slack lawyers

Pensions IHT

Death and taxes

HMRC could save an estimated 1.7 million hours of call handlers’ time every year if it implemented an automated tracking system for taxpayers to check the status of their queries, a joint study...

Mark Drakeford, Welsh finance minister, set out the Welsh government’s Budget for 2025-26. The key tax announcements are: Welsh rates of income tax will remain unchanged at 10% so Welsh income...