The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld HMRC’s complaint about advertising of a tax avoidance scheme by promoter CDP Tax & Wealth Ltd, which trades as Fiducia Wealth and Tax, ruling its adverts contain misleading claims, and must be withdrawn

Over 150,000 investors with the fund management platform Hargreaves Lansdown are in line for a £15m windfall, after the company won a legal challenge to HMRC’s claim that their ‘loyalty bonus’ rebate payments should be taxed

BBC presenters have told MPs they felt ‘forced’ to set up personal service companies (PSCs) when offered regular work by the broadcaster, which has said it plans to set up a dispute resolution process to investigate whether it should pay employers National Insurance Contributions (NICs) on such arrangements

HMRC is to pilot a new version of its Business Risk Review (BRR) process for the risk assessment of large businesses, after a consultation indicated there need to be more gradations of risk and closer dialogue between companies and the department

HMRC is urging people to ensure they declare gift aid when giving money to charity, after its research found charities are losing out on extra funding worth nearly £600m a year because a third of eligible donations are overlooked

Ahead of this week’s meeting of the G20 finance ministers in Argentina, the OECD has published an interim report on the implications of digitalisation for taxation, and says its inclusive framework on base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) is working to achieve a consensus approach by 2020

Chancellor Philip Hammond kept his first Spring Statement short and sweet, instead updating the public on the state of the economy and choosing to save any tax measures for the Autumn Budget. Expert tax writers from Croner-i summarise the 13 consultations announced in preparation for this fiscal event

MPs are warning that the changes to child benefit and poor communication from HMRC may mean thousands of parents risk losing out on future pension entitlements, and are calling on the Treasury to provide more analysis of the numbers affected

New legislation making online marketplaces more accountable for VAT fraud committed by online sellers on their platforms have come into force this week, as part of a package of measures in Finance Act 2018 which the Treasury says are set to raise an additional £1.2bn in tax

HMRC has signalled it is extending its flagship Making Tax Digital initiative to include income tax reporting, by offering self employed individuals and their agents the opportunity to join a pilot for using software to keep business record digitally and send income tax updates to HMRC, instead of filing a self assessment tax return

The Charity Tax Commission is seeking views on whether and how the tax treatment of charities, estimated to be worth around £3.7bn a year, needs to be reformed

Political pressure has seen the government backtrack on plans to abolish the salary sacrifice employer childcare voucher (CCV) scheme following the introduction of its new tax-free childcare option, and the vouchers will now be available for an additional six months, which some commentators suggest will cause confusion