European lawmakers are set to tighten rules for large online platforms such as Amazon and eBay to recover billions in lost VAT from sales through their sites

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

Croner-i tax writer Sarah Kay looks at cases of carousel fraud and what HMRC can do to clamp down on the issue of VAT evasion on goods, by either disallowing input tax recovery or enforcing the domestic reverse charge

The EU is set to tighten VAT rules to improve fraud detection in cross-border e-commerce transactions and simplify requirements for SMEs

HMRC has issued its first detailed guidance on the tax treatment of cryptoasset transactions specifically clarifying the rules for transactions at businesses and companies

Troubled Goals Soccer Centre, which de-listed from AIM earlier this year following the discovery of irregularities in its accounts, has now admitted the profits of the business may have been overstated by as much as £40m since 2009

In this month’s VAT updates, Graham Elliott, director at City & Cambridge Consultancy, considers whether direct patient contact is necessary for medical services, how waiting for a single document lost a self-builder’s tax claim, and whether a husband and wife’s businesses were one or two businesses

HMRC has extended the Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT compliance date for businesses judged to have complex or legacy IT systems and they will be given extra time to meet the requirement to maintain digital links as part of the new filing regime

In our regular Q&A series, Croner Taxwise VAT advisor Priyesh Mistry explains how financial intermediaries can treat supplies as VAT exempt

In a session before the Treasury Committee, HMRC chief told MPs that it had not calculated the administrative cost of the government’s Brexit deal on exporting businesses and that several thousand high value exporters were not even ready for a no-deal Brexit

When a room in a house is converted for a specific use by a disabled person complex VAT rules apply. HMRC has revised VAT Notice 701/7 to provide clarity on how to interpret the VAT charges. Angela Bedi, Croner-i tax specialist, explains

There is no evidence of aircraft VAT avoidance in the Isle of Man but further compliance checks should be implemented, according to a Treasury review investigating allegations made in the Panama Papers

HMRC has ramped up its planning to minimise potential post-Brexit disruption to trade, by automatically registering 95,000 businesses for its simplified import procedures which will be put in place should the UK leave the EU without an agreement at the end of the month 

A church in Bournemouth has won its appeal that its newly built annex to its main building should be zero-rated for VAT, after a First Tier Tribunal (FTT) found HMRC’s decision to seek VAT payments was based on largely out of date plans for the development

Top 20 accountancy firm MHA MacIntyre Hudson has strengthened its VAT and travel teams with the acquisition of Martin Pooley’s accountancy practice, based in Norwich