Brilliant to represent ATT at today’s Association Excellence awards, where the association’s amazing technical team won the silver award for team excellence. Very well deserved.

Good to be at ⁦PwC UK⁩ this morning for launch of this year’s Total Tax Contribution report with Fin Sec Nigel Huddleston. Big increase in taxes borne by 100 Group companies from 40 to 49% of profits. Short lived NI increase and Energy Profits Levy significant in this.

On 6 March, the Chancellor presented his Budget to the House of Commons. Following debates, all the Budget resolutions were agreed to on 12 March. The Finance Bill 2023-24 has now been introduced. Our research looks closer at the Budget and the new Bill: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…

Delighted to be at the launch of a new Social Market Foundation report on financial education in primary schools with speakers including Robin Walker, chair of Parliament’s Education Committee Education Committee. So important to start age appropriate financial education at an early age.

What are the chancellor’s tax options for the forthcoming Budget? Enlightening discussion at ⁦Resolution Foundation⁩ this morning with ⁦Judith Freedman⁩ ⁦Nick Macpherson⁩ and RF’s Adam Corlett. Something of a consensus that we’ll see CGT rate increase.

It’s that time of year again: party conference season. Talking tax this week with the Lib Dems in Brighton (it’s sunny) before joining Labour in Liverpool and the Conservatives in Birmingham. You can read my pre-conference thoughts at tax.org.uk/autumn-2024-sc… #libdems

Good to be at a fringe cosponsored by APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax on corruption and dirty money with speakers including Edward Lucas, Lord Wallace of Saltaire and Susan Hawley of Spotlight on Corruption. Liberal Democrats #LDConf

At #LabConf24 in Liverpool. Fringe debate on ‘Taxing polluters not taxpayers’ with Liam Byrne MP and others. Liam says UK needs to be a pioneer in how we use carbon taxes internationally.

Interesting to hear Rachel Reeves reaffirm manifesto tax commitments and recruitment of additional HMRC compliance personnel in her conference speech. XST James Murray will chair HMRC’s Board, which sounds a strong statement of intent on improving HMRC’s performance #lab24

Economic Secretary Tulip Siddiq was part of a City UK / New Statesman discussion this morning on how to get inclusive growth and in particular the role financial and professional services can play. Role of skills and reforming the apprenticeship levy significant in this #Lab24

In Birmingham for Conservative Party Conference. First up today a meeting organised by ⁦TheCityUK⁩ and ⁦ConservativeHome⁩. Shadow treasury minister ⁦Gareth Davies MP⁩ among the panellists fielding questions on financial crime, venture capital among other topics. #cpc24

Shadow Foreign Sec Andrew Mitchell among speakers at a fringe meeting on economic crime. Says UK has accepted dirty money for a long time. CDOTs - Closed registers of BO was not enough. Panama papers etc showed you needed to see the dotted lines. Sunlight is the best disinfectant

Can the Conservatives ever again be the party of low tax? That’s the topic of discussion for the ThinkTent at #CPC24 Looking forward to an interesting discussion

Hi James Wild MP. Congratulations on your appointment as Shadow Exchequer Secretary. Can you confirm this means you are shadow minister for tax and that you'll be leading for the opposition on the Finance Bill?