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Tim Ambrose, President of The Chartered Institute of Taxation, and Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Aberdeen speculates on how he would like to improve the tax law

 
Tim Ambrose President of The Chartered Institute of Taxation and Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers Aberdeen speculates on how he would like to improve the tax law
 
I would like to put forward the huge benefit which I believe Government and taxpayers would both receive from the repeal of some four lines only of our tax law — sub-subsection (1)(f) and its neighbour (1)(g) of ICTA 1988 s 74.
 
These are the long standing provisions which prevent the deduction of any 'capital' in computing trading profits. Because of these provisions no deduction has been permitted for depreciation (which I believe is clearly a...

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