The Treasury is considering tax breaks for provision of occupational health services as it grapples with the large number of workers signed off on long-term sick

The government is planning to overhaul the tax rules on employee ownership trusts to make it harder to use the schemes to avoid tax

HMRC will be given extra powers to collect information about the amount of dividend payments earned by owner managed business directors while employers will have to report the number of hours worked by individual employees

Daniel Howitt, co-founder of Recap, explains what planned tax legislation for crypto could mean for accountants and their clients

The government is considering tightening the rules to make it more difficult for multinationals to avoid paying the diverted profits tax and bring it into the corporation tax regime

The complex stamp tax rules could be simplified to create a single tax, removing some headaches for accountants, explain Ben Jones, co-head of global tax, and Colin Askew and Helen Mackey, tax partners at Eversheds Sutherland

The Treasury is consulting on measures to strengthen protection for contractors who use umbrella companies by creating a legislative framework and reviewing employee pay processes and tax liability

The government plans to overhaul schemes offering people shares in their employer to simplify the application process and review cost of tax reliefs

The government has told MPs that it is consulting on a change to VAT on energy saving materials which could boost the capacity of householders to use solar energy to power their homes

HMRC is consulting on plans to simplify the administrative burden of the construction industry scheme by simplifying some reporting requirements

The government has launched a consultation to consider giving HMRC more powers to recover unpaid tax on crypto transactions directly from digital wallets

Failure to file charity accounts on time could result in the withholding of Gift Aid in reforms proposed by the government