Editor’s comment: growing the tax code

30 Jul 2018

As HMRC continues with its attempt to close the £33bn tax gap, by releasing dozens of new tax measures as part of the Draft Finance Bill 2018-19, Sara White, editor of Accountancy asks whether all these new tax initiatives take the spotlight off Making Tax Digital for VAT which is quickly approaching

While ministers try to focus on a civilised Brexit departure, the government presses on with dozens of new tax measures, as set out in the Finance Bill 2018-19, issued in the combustible last weeks of the parliamentary session before the summer recess.

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