In March 2015, when George Osborne outlined the new concept of “making tax easier”, he said it would herald the death of the tax return. All the tax information relevant to an individual would be gathered into the taxpayer’s digital tax account, and the annual paper tax return would be consigned to history. This was…
Month: April 2017
Do you know the score?
Imagine you’re watching your favourite sports team in their chosen sport…..rugby, cricket, football, baseball….. and you turn to the person sitting next to you and ask the score. “No idea” comes the reply. Two teams battle it out but you’ve no idea who’s winning. How do you feel? Frustrated at best. How can they play…
It started in the vegetable garden
Do you recognise this man? He’s my friend Wilf. Wilf and I have never met, but I call him my friend because we’re like two peas in a pod – we both love numbers. It started (for him) in the late 1880s when he was working in his vegetable garden and made an interesting discovery:…
