Philip Fisher

5 days ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Philip Fisher

One day, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will heap praise on His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs for introducing service improvements that benefit “customers”. Unfortunately, that day appears to recede further and further into the distance with every PAC report.

5 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Philip Fisher

For reasons long lost in the mists of time, Broadway theatres have always been far more open than their West End counterparts when it comes to declaring audience numbers and the revenues that they generate. With inflation bouncing around at an unhealthy level, it must be expected that there will be regular announcements of broken records. Even so, the latest is quite something. Last week, Good Night, and Good Luck “shatters all box office records with gross of $4,003,481.50”.

6 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Philip Fisher

It has become fashionable for directors to take classic plays and, rather than trusting the text that has delighted for decades or, in this case, over a century and a quarter, adapt works with the intention of improving them. That is exactly what Max Webster has attempted in this revival of The Importance of Being Earnest, which played on the National’s Lyttelton stage from November 2024 until January 2025.

1 week ago | accountingweb.co.uk | Philip Fisher

Inheritance tax legislation is complicated at the best of times and even more so when, as in the case of ​​Afsha Chugtai vs HMRC [2025] UKFTT 00458 (TC), it involves the legislation at Section 102 Finance Act 1986 relating to gifts with a reservation of benefit. HMRC was of the view that two trust deeds, one relating to funds in a Santander bank account and the other a property in Caversham, fell foul of the legislation and issued determinations to that effect.

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Philip Fisher

It feels like an age since Rufus Norris announced that he would be stepping down as the National Theatre’s supremo and quite some time since we learned of the subsequent appointment of Indhu Rubasingham to take over the role. Finally, this week, it feels as though the transformation is complete, as the new Director has revealed details of her opening season. She might be very grateful that her theatre is situated in London rather than the United States and, more particularly, Washington.