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Tax | HMRC register of tax advisors will have ‘chilling effect’

HMRC should not have the power to regulate tax advisors as judge, jury and executioner as looks likely under their new register, warns Fiona Fernie, partner at Blick Rothenberg

11 Dec 2025

Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

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Business | Leon collapse blamed on ‘unsustainable tax burden’

Fast food chain Leon has called in administrators, cutting jobs and closing 20 restaurants blaming high costs

11 Dec 2025

Business

Companies

Tax

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Tax | Mid-sized businesses fined £16m for corporation tax breaches

HMRC doubles corporation tax checks and issues £16m in fines to mid-sized businesses with R&D tax relief and transfer pricing major problem areas

11 Dec 2025

Tax | One in five accountants ‘very negative’ about impact of Budget

A flurry of post-Budget surveys by accounting and professional bodies has shown just how unpopular the chancellor’s choices have been for business

11 Dec 2025

Tax | Important changes to tribunal delay application process

Neil Tipping, VIP enquiries manager at Croner-i, explains the changes set out in a new practice statement on tribunal delay applications, stressing from now on parties must discuss any potential delay between themselves before approaching the tribunal

11 Dec 2025

Tax | Chancellor clashes with MP over tax hikes

Rachel Reeves grilled over tax rising Budget while criticising ‘incredibly damaging’ unauthorised backroom briefings with press

10 Dec 2025

Tax

Budget

Politics

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Tax | Sussex estate wins £477k mixed use SDLT dispute

HMRC loses appeal involving purchase of multimillion pound estate in West Sussex after tribunal rejects argument buyer was not entitled to pay mixed use stamp duty land tax

10 Dec 2025

Business | Excessive covid fraud hit £10.9bn through ‘negligence’

Chaotic procurement, pointless self verification to secure bounce back loans, and lack of basic checks by banks in early months of pandemic led to Covid fraud fiasco

9 Dec 2025

Tax | Updating engagement letters for MTD for Income Tax

Lizzie Morris ACA stresses the importance of issuing a new engagement letter for personal tax clients under Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

9 Dec 2025

Tax

Making Tax Digital

Tax Compliance

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Tax | Q&A: tax charge on overdrawn director's loan account

In this week’s Q&A, Teddy Rawlings, adviser at Croner-i VIP Tax Team, explains the benefit in kind tax charge when a director fails to pay off a director’s loan account in a timely manner

9 Dec 2025

Business | Fine of £5k for breaches of HMRC tax adviser register

Details of plans for the new HMRC tax adviser ‘interact’ register have become clearer in 18 pages of legislation in draft Finance (No.2) Bill with firms required to register not individual staff members

8 Dec 2025

Tax | Finance Bill runs to 554 pages

Bumper Finance (No.2) Bill released running to 554 pages, the longest piece of tax legislation since 2017 with raft of measures to crack down on tax avoidance promoters and thresholds frozen for six years

8 Dec 2025

Business | Tax charity scales up services to support vulnerable with MTD

The UK’s largest tax advice charity TaxAid is launching a major fundraising campaign to help vulnerable taxpayers navigate Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

8 Dec 2025

Tax | Salary sacrifice curb will hit 3.3m employees

Removal of full tax free salary sacrifice on pensions with new £2,000 limit will hit nearly 300,000 companies with nearly half of current employee users facing higher tax bills

8 Dec 2025