CBI policy work helps shape the environment for UK businesses.

Supported by specialist in-house teams, CBI members set policy and influence decision makers in the UK and internationally to achieve a positive climate for business.

Business issues

Tax system administration

The workings of the tax collection infrastructure within the UK

This area looks at how to improve the way businesses deal with the taxation system and their relationship with HMT/HMRC.   Some issues covered lately include:

  • Yearly cycle of Budget/Finance Bill
  • New approach to Tax Policy Making
  • Principles of Taxation Policy
  • General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR)
  • HMRC Powers Review (since the merger of the two former Departments of the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise)
  • HMRC Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms
  • Tax Tribunals Reform
  • Better Tax Regulation
  • Tax Law Rewrite
  • Office of Tax Simplification Projects.

Latest Documents

CBI's Tax Task Force Report (pdf) 

CBI Response to HMT Tax Policy Making Proposals (pdf)


 

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