James Mansell

@EmmaRTax @DanNeidle Why is that?

@DanNeidle Get’s even worse when you think about position in Northern Ireland…

This is a real but probably inevitable issue with the new EV duty:

@JezzaH99 @paullewismoney @Moneybox @BBCRadio4 Well encouraging companies to use digital submission will increase the amount of data avaliable.

@jdcmansell @paullewismoney @Moneybox @BBCRadio4 What do you mean by tax gap? Making Tax Digital does not increase the tax collection by HMRC. At the moment MTD has nothing to do with tax other than numbers are submitted to HMRC.

800,000 self-employed people and landlords with turnover >£50k will have to submit tax accounts to HMRC five times a year under changes starting next April. Many don't know, others are unhappy. Minister in charge of Making Tax Digital James Murray live @Moneybox noon @BBCRadio4

@BootsUK when are you going to fix your Watford store downstairs shutters? It's most irritating and has been like that for a while..

@IainDale V

What an absolutely disgraceful headline on this BBC news story. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@katyballs First past the post might help him here...

Arron Banks is announced as Reform’s candidate for Bristol mayor The long time Brexiteer and Farage ally is hoping to take on Labour and the Greens. Suggests Reform can ‘come through the middle and win it’

@DanNeidle Also this change should reduce land values which will mean fewer estates are hit.

Apologies - error in my earlier post about agricultural property relief. I said 87% of farm estates wouldn't be affected based on this table. 552 estates/year would be affected, of which the wealthiest 63 - received relief on £8m of property.

@campbellclaret I suspect the sun may be up if its close this will be a late one

Any media in the vicinity of Whalebone pub in Truss-seat? Hearing her taxpayer funded security team whisked her out as the boos rang round!!! Is it too much to hope she might be the Portillo moment early hours Friday ?? Make it so Norfolk SW

@campbellclaret reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/c…

It was obvious from the debate this was the line the advertising agency had told him to land. If only he was as tenth as good a PM as he is a good boy for the admen the country wouldn’t be in such a mess. Trouble is he landed all the other messages with the same vim and vigour and they didn’t move the dial because they’re not very good and the government is very bad. But as with Brexit the big online spend is coming and this is a sign of stuff to come complete with lies about policy sent direct to target groups @FullFact are going to be busy. And the admen should be given a bonus (by Labour)

@asentance Do both and lower the rate

U.K. households spend at least £5bn per year on cakes, buns and biscuits which are predominantly zero-rated for VAT. So if Labour wants to raise more VAT revenue to pay for more spending, why not remove that relief, rather than taxing education via VAT on school fees?

@motoway Ok you might want to watch out and add a sign as many people are hopping over fence

@jdcmansell Hi, James. Unfortunately, I can't provide an exact date when the play area will be open. However, the site team is aware of this and is working with the relevant teams to get the area reopened as soon as possible. ^Khloe

@motoway at #RugbyServices why is your outdoor playground locked?

@CutMyTaxUK @DanNeidle @resfoundation You could at the same time unlock small business to grow further who are currently below the vat threshold we have the highest vat threshold in Europe. Technology is massively reducing the cost of compliance. The threshold should be set to avoid trivial part time businesses

@DanNeidle @resfoundation While it may be amusing to quote some old article on the Adam Smith Institute blog the reality is that this is about trying to extract another £1.5bn from the private sector, and from very small businesses many of whom will struggle to cope.

Labour's new tax adviser Edward Troup wants to cut the VAT registation threshold to circa £40k, forcing hundreds of thousands of small businesses to devote their efforts to filling in VAT forms. Labour advisers like @resfoundation, @DanNeidle etc. are pushing this scheme 1/2

The Mail in 1991 when Panorama revealed John Manor was on the electoral register at a house where he never lived.

@LeeDavidEvansUK @RhonddaBryant The 1949 Parliament Act was pretty radical you could argue.

@RhonddaBryant I'm aware of the history. I was mainly sharing some trivia, but to the extent I was making a point it's that Attlee worked within the existing constitution to try and improve people's lives, rather than wasting govt time tinkering with the constitution. Lab should learn from him.

Labour wasn’t always so hostile towards hereditary peerages. Clement Attlee created a remarkable 82 of them after 1945 - and promoted a further eight Lords up the ranks of the peerage.

Sending help... Clearly shes been kidnapped.

@callummay @aliceolilly I believe this is the only example where there is a maximum age, rather than minimum age to be in the electorate for a head of state.

@aliceolilly The pope can choose as many people as he wants to elect his successor. Interestingly, electors aged over 80 are excluded

No, we don’t have an explainer on papal conclaves, sorry

@DanNeidle I trust there was a KC opinion saying it was all fine….

Today's quiz. Guess the outcome of this Court of Appeal judgment by only reading the first paragraph:

@afneil LNG from middle east presumably...

European Union has cut its intake of Russian gas to less than a third of the 155 billion cubic meters it imported in 2021; and tripled its imports of US liquefied natural gas, which reached 60 billion cubic metres in 2023. Now the Biden administration, in pursuit of its climate change goals, is looking at limiting gas export permits. Where would that leave Europe?

@DanNeidle I’m surprised PwC let them away with a contingent liability not an actual liability to repay tax.

We've a new report: the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments to the postmasters it persecuted. That's outrageous. It's also unlawful - so the Post Office now faces an unexpected £100m tax bill. It may be insolvent.