Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man have agreed to set up public beneficial ownership registers to improve transparency of company and trust ownership in line with EU efforts to clamp down on money laundering and tax evasion

HMRC’s latest list of major tax defaulters owing over £16.5m in unpaid tax, was topped by a grocery delivery company owing £1.14m and a metal and industrial chemical company owing £1.1m, with buy-to-let landlords, online traders and accountants, also featuring 

In our regular Q&A series, Croner Taxwise consultant Jason Croke, explains the registration requirements for a first-time registrant planning to use the flat rate scheme for VAT compliance and recovery

Work is on schedule for the opening of HMRC’s new Scottish headquarters in Edinburgh in spring 2020, which will form the centrepiece of a newly built, high-tech government hub

In part two of a series on childcare tax issues, Julie Clift CTA, specialist tax writer at Croner-i, asks whether it’s worth staying in the old childcare voucher scheme or moving to the new tax-free childcare scheme

The introduction of blanket disclosure means all UK trusts will have to register details of their ownership on the UK Trust Register from next year resulting in millions of additional registrations

The popularity of blockchain and its adoption by mainstream industry has focused international attention on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies. Friggo Kraaijeveld, partner at Kraaijeveld Coppus Legal, examines how the Dutch tax authority treats crypto assets from personal tax to corporate income tax

The newly launched HMRC Making Tax Digital for VAT online reporting service will be unavailable for part of the weekend and for the whole working day on Monday due to IT maintenance

Despite Brexit uncertainties, the UK attracted more foreign direct investment (FDI) than Germany and France combined in 2018, United Nations data shows

The Help to Buy scheme, designed to increase home ownership, could leave the government open to ‘significant market risk’ if prices fall, and many of those using this option could have bought a property without it, a National Audit Office (NAO) report has found

The G20 finance ministers have signalled their support for the OECD’s ‘two pillars’ approach to tackling global tax issues, and pledged to agree on the introduction of a digital tax by 2020

The scope of the charge to tax on non-UK resident companies is not only complex but will soon have a broader reach following a series of rules introduced in Finance Act 2019. Paul Davies CTA ACA, tax writer at Croner-i, assesses the changes to tax on chargeable gains already effective and plans to extend this to income tax from 2020