Business owners affected by flooding should contact HMRC’s Business Payment Support Service (BPPS) for help with tax problems, while BEIS is offering help through business recovery grants

Taxes are high by historical standards accounting for over a third of GDP at 34.4%, increasing almost 7% from the 1950s

Emma Rawson, technical officer at the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) explores how the rent a room scheme and property income allowance affect rental income for residential landlords and property owners

The amount of income tax being paid is declining in every region of the UK as a growing proportion of the workforce becomes self employed

In our weekly Q&A series from Croner Taxwise, tax consultant David Woolley explains the ins and outs of HMRC requirements when filing annual tax returns for a new limited liability partnership whose accounts straddle different tax years

Both Labour and Conservative voters expect taxes to rise, and the majority feel that higher earners should make up the deficit

Staying on top of the pensions tax rules is an important part of managing a pension. But the provisions can be disconcertingly complex. Karen Goldschmidt, partner at LCP, unpicks some of the tax complexity surrounding the annual and lifetime allowances

Attempts to reform tax reporting for the self employed and landlords need to be carefully thought through to avoid creating more complexity and red tape. Yvette Nunn CTA ATT MAAT, director of Berkeley Associates, assesses the latest OTS report

Stephen Relf ACA CTA, senior tax writer at Croner-i, explains the tax implications of the high income child benefit charge (HICBC) from calculating the adjusted charge net income and advantages of claiming child benefit but opting out of actual payments to protect state pension

In the latest IR35 loss for HMRC, TV presenter Helen Fospero has won her case at the tax tribunal over a disputed tax bill of £80,000 when she was working on a contract basis for ITV

In a scathing report, members of the Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) have demanded an urgent delay and suspension of the loan charge, and for HMRC to suspend related accelerated payment notices (APNs)

Taxpayers will have to wait until a new government is formed to find out the outcome of the Morse review into the loan charge

Multimillionaire Robert Gaines-Cooper is back in the tax courts at the First Tier Tribunal disputing a long-running avoidance case centring on tax liability and domicile issues

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) is calling for improvements to HMRC’s individual tax account service to provide an end-to-end tax reporting and payment service for the self employed and buy-to-let landlords

Towns in the south east England stockbroker belt account for nine of the top 10 list of places in the UK where residents pay the most income tax