Plucking the Goose: A Century of Taxation from the Great War to the Digital Age

1. Why the First World War had such a critical impact on income tax, and how UK taxation has developed since then, with the part played by each of the major taxes; 2. From squeezing the rich to incentive-based taxes, and why the single most important change in the income tax regime came with the Thatcher reforms of the 1980s; 3. From direct to indirect taxation; the impact of joining the Common Market and the future for VAT in the post-Brexit era?; 4. Corporation tax - from 52% to Google, and the development of the anti-avoidance landscape; 5. The correlation between tax revenues and the benefits system; 6. The changing role for investigation and regulation, and how the tax profession has developed alongside; 8. The 'State of Tax Today' - the widening of the tax debate, greater public scrutiny and trust, and the ongoing need for simplification of the longest and most complex tax code in the world; 9. On the horizon for taxpayers - 'Making Tax Digital', HMRC's Business Tax Roadmap and what next after BEPS (the Base Erosion and Profit Sharing) initiative; 10 Principles of tax - the potential for redrawing the parameters upon which taxation is presently based, including concepts of residence, source and accounting profit