Editor's comment: Brexit fears stall progress on digital tax accounts

The long build-up to the EU referendum on 23 June has seen delays in the normal day-to-day business of government, while HMRC plans to consult on the major transition to digital tax accounts have been delayed despite the July deadline to start beta testing of quarterly reporting, says Sara White

So the government is paralysed by Brexit as the propaganda machine goes into overdrive and the opposing camps line up to deliver the latest exaggerated claim of pending doom and collapse if the country votes to leave, while the Brexiteers fail to substantiate their argument with concrete evidence of what severing the decades-long links with the EU would actually mean for the UK. Everything short of pestilence and plague has been predicted. No doubt the four horsemen are waiting down the road from Chequers.

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