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Understanding HMRC Guidance: How AI Translates Tax Jargon into Plain English
Spent four hours trying to understand one HMRC paragraph. Then pasted it into AI. Got the answer in 11 seconds. Here's how to read HMRC's arcane legal prose without losing your mind.
21 November 2025
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10 min read
I once spent four hours trying to understand a single HMRC guidance paragraph. Four. Hours. The paragraph was 187 words long. It referenced three different manual sections, cited two acts of Parliament, and used the phrase "notwithstanding subsection (3)(a)" like that's a thing normal human beings say. ...
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