Tax | Final P11D deadline for HMRC expenses and BiK filing

As HMRC moves to payroll filing of expenses and benefits in kind from the new tax year, this July will be the last P11D deadline for many employers

14 May 2026

Tax

Employment Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Business | King’s Speech outlines closer trade ties with EU, less red tape

In a turbulent week for the prime minister, King’s Speech sets out legislative programme with plans for closer ties to EU in a major re-set, late payment clampdown, less costly and onerous levels of red tape from regulators to drive innovation, and digital ID cards are back

13 May 2026

Business

Companies

Tax

Politics

Tax | High Court throws out farm tax case ‘at first hurdle’

Farmers lose judicial review challenge over ‘flawed’ consultation process as judge rules government not required to consult extensively before tax changes

13 May 2026

Tax

Inheritance Tax

HMRC

Case Reports

Business | HMRC’s hard turn on tax enforcement

Soaring number of winding up petitions after HMRC gained secondary preferential creditor status makes it more difficult to negotiate time to pay agreements to settle tax debts, warn Linton Bloomberg, partner, and Josh Beasley, trainee solicitor, at Reed Smith

13 May 2026

Business

Companies

Restructuring & Insolvency

Tax

Business Tax

HMRC

Tax | Trickle of guidance on pension pot tax rules ‘leaves schemes struggling’

With under a year to go before pension pots are brought into the scope of inheritance tax, HMRC issues important technical note, with some left wanting more

12 May 2026

Tax

Inheritance Tax

HMRC

Tax | Q&A: reclaiming VAT on imports

In this week’s Q&A, Melody Jagus, adviser at Croner VIP Tax Team, explains how to reclaim VAT on imports and evidence requirements

11 May 2026

Tax

VAT

Tax Compliance

Tax | Zoe Gascoyne named head of fraud investigation at HMRC

Shake-up at HMRC as Zoe Gascoyne OBE appointed as director of the fraud investigation service as Richard Las retires

11 May 2026

Tax

HMRC

HR

Leadership & Management

Careers

Tax | Football referees not employees in £584k tax dispute

In latest twist in decade old tax dispute, tribunal rules professional PGMOL football referees were not employees for tax purposes, leaving HMRC mulling possible appeal

11 May 2026

Tax

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | Former chancellor Gordon Brown returns to Downing Street

After heavy election losses, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer welcomes back former chancellor Gordon Brown in ‘unpaid part-time role’

11 May 2026

Tax

Politics

Tax | Lower paid self-employed twice as likely to file late taxes

The ‘invisible workforce’ without access to accountants or financial advisers struggle with ‘unpredictable income and limited support’

8 May 2026

Tax

Employment Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax | 47% support AI tax as ‘minimum wage for robots’

As government faces calls for ‘minimum wage for robots’, poll finds nearly half want tax on AI work with growing apathy for automation discourse 

8 May 2026

Tax

Business Tax

Politics

Technology

Tax | ‘Tougher tax backdrop’ drives decline in overseas landlord purchases

Stamp duty causes loss of appetite for UK buy to lets as ‘less favourable tax treatment’ for foreign landlords takes toll

7 May 2026

Tax

Property Tax

Tax | 165k homeowners to pay mansion tax with 20% expected to appeal

Four in 10 appeals against mansion tax likely to succeed says Budget watchdog, as FoI request shows rollout by Treasury will cost £400m

7 May 2026

Tax

Property Tax

Budget

Tax | Wills, estates and taxes: what you need to know

Chris Thorpe, technical officer at the Chartered Institute of Taxation, cuts through the jargon and explains how the deceased’s assets can get to the beneficiaries via a Will, intestacy or gifts made in life, and tax considerations

6 May 2026

Tax

Inheritance Tax

Tax Planning

Tax | Treasury warned EV pay per mile charge could cost £4.8bn

Coalition of electric vehicle trade bodies write to minister asking for delay in Budget mileage charge, stating cost of rollout would exceed revenue raised

5 May 2026

Tax

Personal Tax