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With business leaders calling on the government for a ‘green recovery’ from Covid-19, it is time to rethink our tax system to make it green at its core, writes Jason Collins (Pinsent Masons).

In our continuing series, Heather Self examines tax issues reported in the national media. This week, is it time to review CGT?

There aren’t many upsides to the current situation but using it as an opportunity to reform the tax system could be a silver lining, write Stuart Adam and Helen Miller (Institute for Fiscal Studies).
Andrew Howard (Ropes & Gray) considers the proposals that might provide an opportunity to achieve a material boost for the UK asset management industry.
Ian Hyde and Matthew Greene (Osborne Clarke) examine the government’s plans to require large businesses to notify HMRC of uncertain tax treatments they have adopted after April 2021.
People like to put Budgets into nice, neat categories. Is it a spending or tax raising budget? Sometimes the answer is not entirely clear. But 11 March was not such a time. Based on the Red Book numbers, Budget 2020 was a spending budget to define...
Nick Skerrett and Heather Rowlands (Simmons & Simmons) discuss a landfill tax decision that is of wider interest as an example of HMRC rowing back on published guidance to minimise exposure to claims.
Paul Davison and Sam Withnall (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) report on the progress of the state aid recovery following the Commission’s final decision in its investigation last year. 
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