Mid-sized businesses do not see tax planning and compliance as a major priority for their businesses but more part of the everyday running of the business, with heavy reliance on accountants and tax agents to handle their tax affairs

George Bull, senior tax partner at RSM, asks whether France’s commitment to refund part of its digital services tax to the US tech giants will scupper the UK’s efforts to introduce a 2% digital tax

HMRC is trialling additional functionality on the online trust registration service to make it easier to register and amend information about trusts, with the aim of launching a full service by year end

Lack of trust in potential in-laws is leading parents to review the use of cash payments to children for house purchases with alternatives such as will trusts and ringfencing deposits under consideration 

HMRC has published the latest advisory fuel rates (AFR) for company car users, effective from 1 September 2019 cutting standard 1400cc plus mileage rates by 1p per mile to reflect lower fuel costs

Meg Wilson CTA examines the proposals to change the rules to allow HMRC to recover more money from insolvent businesses, including reverting to secondary preferential creditor status

In our regular Q&A, Vivienne Cheung, tax advisor at Croner Taxwise, considers the compliance issues for the 3% higher rate stamp duty when two properties adjacent to each other are purchased by a married couple, one for residential use

There are signs that France and the US may be about to settle their differences over the introduction of a digital services tax (DST), after comments at the recent G7 summit suggested the two countries are looking to work together on the issue which has raised the threat of retaliatory tariffs

HMRC has published its first detailed guidance on how new rules for off-payroll workers (IR35) will operate in the private sector when the responsibility for determining individual’s employment status moves to employers in April next year, reports Pat Sweet

The government is holding more than £28m of overpayments made to the Student Loan Company (SLC) in error, as a result of repayments being deducted from individuals after they have paid off their loans in full

A man who had a series of temporary contracts working at different company sites has lost his appeal for tax relief on his travel expenses, on the grounds this was ordinary commuting