Beer prices may be down a meagre 1p a pint, but wines prices will rise by up to 42p a bottle when complex new tax bands for wine come into force from 1 February, warns Alex Baulf, head of global indirect tax at Avalara

The Treasury has stopped controversial plans to collect information about the exact hours worked by every employee in PAYE returns but dividend reporting goes ahead

This is the last call for a couple of million taxpayers to file their annual self assessment tax returns by tonight’s deadline or be slapped with an automatic £100 fine and late payment interest