The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has said it will now be publishing its corporation tax computation review later in March, after the spring Budget, and has also confirmed that Paul Morton will formally take over as tax director from John Whiting next month

The bill giving prime minister Theresa May the authority to trigger Article 50 and start negotiations to take the UK out of the EU has passed its final stage in the House of Commons and will now move on to lords for consideration.

Members of the House of Lords Economic Affairs Finance Bill sub-committee have described the mandatory uptake of Making Tax Digital as ‘undemocratic’ as they continue their enquiries into the project’s rollout. Calum Fuller reports

The Treasury is coming under pressure to provide a detailed analysis of the costs to business of Making Tax Digital, after business groups have suggested these may be as much as ten times greater than forecast

HMRC’s £10,000 threshold for use of Making Tax Digital has been excoriated by members of the House of Lords economic affairs committee, who branded the proposal ‘ridiculous’

Making Tax Digital must take account of the needs of small businesses says ACCA head of taxation Chas Roy-Chowdhury 

Yvette Nunn CTA is heartened MPs in the Treasury Committee have added their voice to the profession's concerns around Making Tax Digital and its ambitious timetable for its introduction

Businesses using Making Tax Digital to file with HMRC will be granted a ‘soft landing’ for late filings in the first 12 months of the project’s operation, the tax authority has said

Spreadsheets will be incorporated into the Making Tax Digital process, HMRC has confirmed, as it published extensive consultation responses and draft legislation for the project’s implementation

Some 400,000 partnerships will report their tax positions and obligations through a nominated partner under HMRC’s Making Tax Digital project, draft legislation shows, although the largest partnerships with income over £10m are likely to be exempted

In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that government does not have the power to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval first, prime minister Theresa May has confirmed there will be a white paper on Brexit setting out the government’s plans relating to the UK’s exit from the EU

Former Chancellor George Osborne is to join the world’s largest fund manager BlackRock as a part-time senior adviser