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Type: Journal Articles Authors: Graeme Macdonald and Edward Whitehouse ISSN: Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
Published in: Fiscal Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 1993
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 107-126
The government's overhaul of the direct tax system, including the 1984 reforms to the Corporation Tax, the introduction of Independent Taxation and in 1993, the introduction of 'pay and file' for companies, has so far left the taxation of the self-employed relatively untouched. Despite many criticisms of the system, including more recently the Keith Committee report (1983) and the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons (1976), it is only now that the government has considered reforming the income tax system as it relates to the self-employed, with the publication of a consultative document, A Simpler System for Taxing the Self-Employed, (Inland Revenue, 1991a). At the heart of the proposals is reform of the 'preceding year basis of assessment' (PY basis), introduced by Winston Churchill in 1926, itself then billed as a 'simplification' of the system. Search |
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