The changes to the taxation of dividends proposed in the Budget seem to be worthy of rather more attention than they have received, writes Peter Vaines.
The first Conservative Budget for 19 years sees ‘Osborne unbound’, writes Chris Sanger (global head of tax policy, EY) in Tax Journal. This was ‘a reforming Budget’ which sets out plans for a lower tax future ‘but boosts the exchequer’s coffers greatly in the short term’.
With the first Budget of the new parliament, George Osborne showed himself to be a skilled politician but not a tax reformer, David Smith writes.