Between April and August 2021 HMRC collected £280.4bn worth of tax which is £84.7bn more than this period last year as the economy began to recover post pandemic

The Court has found that a company’s payment to its sole owner of profits made on a property sale was not deductible as a loan and was liable for £18k tax

UK expats who own a buy-to-let property in the UK are continuing to approach HMRC to admit they have evaded tax, says UHY Hacker Young

HMRC is targeting wealthy non-domiciled individuals by sending ‘nudge’ letters to those who may not have failed to declare and pay the annual remittance basis charge

The court has ruled in favour of HMRC finding that the lower courts had ‘erred’ in their judgment allowing HMRC to pursue £584,000 in back taxes in the PGMOL IR35 case

Members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on anti-corruption and responsible taxes has criticised HMRC after it agreed an £82m settlement with General Electric over a disputed $1bn (£725m) tax bill

HMRC’s regional office in Salford has been completed and will be ready to open up to 2,400 civil servants in spring 2022

There has been strong pushback on government plans to introduce basis period tax reporting with the main professional institutes calling for a delay, explains Stephen Relf CTA ACA, senior tax writer at Croner-i

The tax gap is estimated to be £35bn, which is 5.3%, up from £33bn in 2018-19, when it stood at 5%, based on £674bn in total tax collected for the year, with VAT the worst offender

HMRC has set out the process for accountancy practices to move clients between firms in the event of a merger or buyout, stressing that client approval is required before tax data can be accessed

Over the last two years, out of the 32,675 tax claims that had been queried by taxpayers almost half, 16,120, of the claims were dropped altogether by HMRC

HMRC is ramping up action against tax defaulters while the end of the winding up ban at the end of September will be a shock for some businesses protected by pandemic measures, warns Sushil Patel, director, restructuring advisory, Kroll