Reforming international taxation to keep up to date with the digital economy is proving harder than first thought when the G20 asked the OECD to review the rules. Bill Dodwell LLB, LLM, CTA (Fellow), ACA, tax director of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) explains

HMRC is to take immediate action to improve its workplace culture, after a highly critical independent report found widespread examples of unacceptable behaviour, and said many of the processes designed to support employees require urgent improvement

The Scottish Budget was approved by 67 votes to 58 with Finance Secretary Derek Mackay getting backing from Green MSPs, after he agreed to boost to local government funding and implement an alternative system to council tax

A record 93.68% of self assessment tax returns were completed by yesterday’s midnight deadline, with 700,000 taxpayers filing last night, according to HMRC

HMRC reports more than 241,000 first time homeowners have pocketed the cash they would have spent on stamp duty land tax (SDLT), saving a total of £570m since first time buyers relief (FTBR) was introduced, but the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has branded the scheme ‘costly and bureaucratic’

The UK’s tax relief bill grew to a record £164bn in 2018-19, significantly more than the health budget, but are being distributed unequally between households, according to research from the Resolution Foundation based on the latest figures from HMRC

HMRC has won an appeal at the Court of Appeal over its decision to serve an information request to a long-standing non-UK resident, in a landmark decision about the scope of the tax authority’s powers beyond the UK borders

Making Tax Digital for VAT is rapidly approaching, with only two months until digital VAT filing becomes mandatory on 1 April. Amy Austin, reporter at Accountancy Daily, went to meet Theresa Middleton, director of Making Tax Digital for Business at HMRC to talk about how successful the pilot has been and what issues have been raised, how HMRC will handle the onslaught of queries and how it will ramp up efforts to make people of aware of the requirements to file digitally going forward

This month's review of VAT cases and VAT news from Graham Eliiot, director of City & Cambridge Consultancy, including Vacation Rentals VAT exemption, split supplies reverse charge, ‘no show’ payments, claims for non-EU businesses, food and beverages and DIY claims 

This month's consultations from HMRC include amendments to tax returns, taxation of trusts’ comment period extended, electronic sales suppression and digital services tax

The key HMRC filing deadlines from February to July 2019 including Forms P46(Car) for quarter ended 5 Jan, PAYE cheque payments for month ended 5 Feb and payment of outstanding income and CGT in respect of personal tax returns for 2017/18 to avoid 5% surcharge

This month's review of tax cases and tax news including taxpayer loses £1m Excalibur scheme appeal, HMRC targets multinationals with profit shifting disclosure, tribunal confusion over BlackRock VAT for financial services case