I will keep posting here, but also now on Bluesky as paulaplinontax

🚀 Get ready for 2025! Join Paul Lodder (FCCA), Paul Aplin OBE, Billie McLoughlin & Charlotte Ing for the Dext 2025 Trends Webinar on 23rd Jan at 10am GMT. Discover key trends, stay ahead of regulations, harness automation & drive growth 💫 Register now! info.dext.com/dext-2025-tren…

Pup has excellent taste in music (I bought this recording 50 years ago - a few clicks & scratches now but still favourite)

A great line up of speakers for the ICAEW CIOT "20 Years of HMRC" conference including David Gauke James Murray Meg Hillier Heather Self Gus O'Donnell Helen Whiteman Malcolm Bacchus Amanda Tickel (and I'll be speaking too) events.icaew.com/pd/30211/20-ye…

OUR 2025 LINE-UP IS HERE! You've met our incredible headliners for the Festival of Accounting & Bookkeeping (FAB) 2025: Rebecca Benneyworth, Paul Aplin and Ray McCann. Now it's time to introduce our full #FAB25 line-up! fab.uk/speakers-2025#…

I'm looking forward to the conference and to speaking on the "challenges of administering corporation tax" panel!

Available Wi-Fi on this morning’s train to London. I have yet to identify the owner of the second option.

This morning on the Somerset Levels

Pleased to have been quoted in this new report from Tolley - some interesting trends highlighted

So threshold for MTD for Income Tax to drop to £20K from April 2028 and clergy, Lloyds Underwriters, recipients of Married Couples Allowance or Blind Persons Allowance won't be required to join MTD for Income Tax in this Parliament gov.uk/government/pub…

💡#Tax digitalisation isn’t just about automation - it’s about smarter tax systems. How can better use of tax data improve compliance & enforcement? Join IGC Tax for Growth, International Centre for Tax and Development & CIOT experts on 1 April to explore the future of #digitaltax. 🔗theigc.org/events/tax-tal…

An interesting paper from HMRC on improving quality of some third party information it receives & better utilising it to help taxpayers - all very much in line with OTS thinking gov.uk/government/con…

My latest for AccountingWEB.co.uk - yesterday's Spring Statement consultation document on making better use of new/improved third party data accountingweb.co.uk/tax/hmrc-polic…

Really looking forward to joining this International Growth Centre discussion next week!

A new consultation on HMRC’s use of third-party data may signal a move towards pre-population, which could transform the experience of tax compliance for taxpayers. 💡 🎯Find out how: ow.ly/THna50VqgOn

On my way home at the end of a full-on couple of days - CIOT Audit & Risk followed by a Dext webinar with Paul Lodder (FCCA) then over to Brussels for CFE Tax Advisers Europe Tax Technology Committee. Looking forward to rescuing the bottle of wine from the fridge...

Not quite sure where my year as VP went, but delighted to be stepping up to Deputy President at CIOT alongside incoming president Nichola Ross Martin and VP John Barnett tax.org.uk/ciot-announces…

Really enjoyed chairing the AI & ethics panel sesion at yesterday's CIOT ATT tax technology conference in Birmingham

At ICAEW One Moorgate Place today for what was to have been my last ICAEW Tax Faculty Board meeting, but happily I've been reappointed for another two years. I joined the Tax Faculty Committee in 2001, served as Chair 2007-9 & much has changed (& much stayed the same) in tax over that time!

I confess to being one of the last to leave the CIOT Parliamentary Reception last night - what an evening to be on the House of Commons Terrace. Great to hear Craig Mackinlay James Murray Gareth Davies MP & Nicola Ross Martin & to meet so many colleagues from the tax world