News Roundup Friday 20th October 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP FRIDAY 20th OCTOBER TAX NEWS Tax system needs rebuilding, not tinkering The Telegraph’s Allister Heath says the Conservatives should abandon plans to fund tax cuts for younger people by scrapping tax reliefs for older workers. Instead, he says the chancellor should be working on rebuilding the tax […]

News Roundup 12th October 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP TAX NEWS SMEs dodge the most tax Figures from HMRC show that SMEs are responsible for 51% of the £5.2bn “tax gap” between what is owed and what is paid. The Revenue divided small companies that avoid tax into four categories: the “unthinking evader” who engages in habitual […]

News Roundup 11th October 2017 NEWS ROUNDUP TAX NEWS Tax break for Ireland’s high earners defended Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority, which has developed a range of incentives for multinationals and high earners to go to the country, will defend its special assignee relief programme (Sarp) this week as Ireland’s Social Democrats call for it to […]