Returns the UK financial tax year for a given date

Source: R/taxYear.R

Based on UK tax year April 6 - April 5, this returns the year (YYYY) the tax period covers. Tax Year start date can be overriden.

taxYear(date = Sys.Date(), start = "04-06")

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