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"Today’s Autumn Statement has shown reliable, safe transport systems and infrastructure are essential for the UK’s economic growth"

CIHT commentary on Autumn Statement 2016

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"This follows a three year period when HMRC could not automatically update these awards"

Welcome news for families with children with disabilities

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"Headline increases in the personal allowance do not generally benefit the lower paid as much as the higher paid"

Cautious welcomes for the package of measures designed to help low earners

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"Responsibility for promoting R&D relief should be given to UK Research & Innovation."

R&D review must not overlook small business

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"Tax change is one of the greatest causes of tax complexity, and having two major fiscal events a year encourages government to keep fiddling about with the system."

Chancellor takes up Institutes’ proposal for fewer Budgets

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"This is the reality of Brexit: Slower growth, higher borrowing, falling tax receipts and soaring inflation"

Autumn statement: The reality of Brexit hits home

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"It is critical that this discretionary solution is backed by safeguards"

Campaigners welcome government confirmation they will act to tackle unfair quirk in tax law on life insurance policies

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"The event was a roaring success"

10,000 children try taste of venison at educational shows

BASC has introduced venison to more than 10,000 children at food and farming days in Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire over the past month. The BASC Eastern team attended three events where they cooked venison tasters and gave talks about the health benefits of eating this delicious source of protein.

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"Tax change is one of the greatest causes of complexity in the tax system"

Moving Budget to Autumn has implications for Scottish Government, say tax experts

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in Scotland has welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement to abolish the Autumn Statement

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"The CIOT has already expressed concern over how the measures will work in practice"

Chancellor signals end of the line for salary sacrifice schemes but delay is welcomed

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has concerns over fairness and complexity

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"The self-employed do not get sick pay or automatic enrolment into a pension scheme."

Low paid self-employed need affordable National Insurance contributions

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"The money purchase annual allowance of £10,000 is unlikely to catch out too many people who might do this"

People drawing pensions ‘flexibly’ might be caught by new ‘less flexible’ rule on further pension saving

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"It’s clear that the Chancellor recognises that improving productivity is vital to economic prosperity"

Autumn Statement 2016: Chancellor right to place productivity centre stage, says CIOB

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"We welcome the fact that the Chancellor has resisted the temptation to add new changes of his own to those already announced."

Corporation tax: stability welcome, but pace of costly changes still poses risks

"You can challenge the penalty if you have a reasonable excuse for having missed the deadline"

Taxpayers with reasonable excuse can dispute their late filing penalty

"There was a glitch in HMRC’s system until this month"

Tax return filers urged to check for Marriage Allowance error

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"The Solar Trade Association (STA) has been urging the Government to drop the solar tax hike for many months"

Chancellor misses opportunity to scrap solar tax hike & boost investment

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"The government must remove barriers to growth for the solar industry so it can thrive and become subsidy free within five years."

Autumn Statement: Solar Industry Pre-Brief

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"Having a strategy allows governments to make timely, well-signalled, course corrections in markets rather than situations building up to a point at which there is a dramatic shift or U-turn"

IET sets out priorities for the industrial strategy ahead of Autumn Statement

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Tax evasion – advisers question need for new offences

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Autumn Statement: Scottish tax advisers welcome tax credits reversal but express caution over apprenticeship levy

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Royal Aeronautical Society reaction to Chancellor’s Spending Review

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