The government’s consultation process for HMRC’s flagship making tax digital (MTD) proposals has been heavily criticised as being too rushed and leaving little time for a successful implementation in an end of year report on tax policy from the Tax Professionals Forum

In keeping with the move to digital tax reporting, HMRC has introduced an online service for submitting a landfill tax return

The Chancellor's well-known love of spreadsheets jarres sharply with the government's Making Tax Digital project, notes Yvette Nunn CTA

Autumn Statement 2016 has confirmed that the response to the six Making Tax Digital (MTD) consultations and the provisions to implement the proposals will be published in January 2017, showing that despite pleas HMRC will go ahead with plans for full implementation by 2020

Our essential snapshot of the key measures announced in Autumn Statement 2016 and Finance Bill 2017, including salary sacrifice, disguised remuneration, NIC for self employed, reduction in MPAA limit and flat rate VAT scheme

HMRC has not agreed contingency measures with the Treasury should it run into difficulties with plans to digitise the tax system, and must take action to ensure it has a credible plan to make savings without damaging customer service, according to a report by the public accounts committee (PAC) which says its performance remains below par in several key areas

Andrew Tyrie, chair of the Treasury committee, has challenged the government over its planned timetable for HMRC to introduce its flagship making tax digital (MTD) scheme, warning that announcements made in the Autumn Statement suggest there will need to be delays to the proposed 2018 start, or implementation will be very rushed

HMRC has kept a low profile in the Making Tax Digital campaign with a lack of communications to the actual end users, bar a deluge of technical consultations, something HMRC may grow to rue in the future, says Sara White, editor, Accountancy

With two months to go until the January filing deadline, HMRC is urging first-time self assessment taxpayers to register for a personal tax account (PTA) in a bid to drive up usage of its online services for tax returns

Yvette Nunn, director at Berkeley Associates, calls for significant changes to HMRC’s Making Tax Digital plans if businesses are going to be able to conform with quarterly reporting requirements with major cost and disruption

The rapid move towards a fully digitised tax reporting landscape for businesses with the introduction of digital personal tax reporting will have serious repercussions for the value of tax-based fees at accountancy firms, warns Keith Underwood, managing director of Foulger Underwood Assocates

Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at Deloitte and president of the CIOT considers the key tax measures announced in the Budget and the impact on businesses from interest deductibility to lower corporation tax, a curb on salary sacrific and increased national insurance costs for employers