HMRC phone services have been hit by this week's extreme weather resulting in limited availability of certain specialist phone lines and some office closures
From 2018/19 company car tax is up 2% for cars which emit 180-184 CO2 g/km and up 1% for vehicles which emit 185-189 CO2 g/km, with HMRC updating its tax rate table to include a separate row for electric cars which release zero CO2 emissions despite leaving out the tax rates for 2020-2021
CFOs no longer consider Excel as an essential skill and are more concerned about employees’ ability to adapt to new technologies, according to research by Adaptive Insights
HMRC is running a month-long consultation seeking views on the draft regulations for the tax treatment of re-insurance arrangements, which will be of interest to life insurance companies and reinsurers who are party to reinsurance arrangements involving reinsurance of basic life assurance and general annuity business (BLAGAB)
The key HMRC filing deadlines from March to July including end of corporation tax financial year, payroll benefits in kind, personal self-assessment balancing payment, online CIS returns, inheritance tax due on lifetime transfers
Graham Elliott, VAT expert at City & Cambridge Consultancy on the definition of grants and services in recent HMRC guidance, membership subs in Harley-Davidson, advanced learner loan rules clarified
Download the HMRC CGT indexation allowance for November 2017, RPI Index for December 2017 and HMRC rates of interest, and the current stamp duty land tax (SDLT) and land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) rates, and more
This month's review of tax cases and tax news including bonds with euro forex clause were QCBs, loan note avoidance scheme fails in Cyclops Electronics, HMRC launches first pilot for businesses to start Making Tax Digital for VAT trial
Jackie Hall ACA CTA, partner at RSM on payment in lieu of notices (PILONs), termination payments and tax and the new national minimum wage and national living wage rates from April 2018
Charities providing tax advice to vulnerable and low income taxpayers say demand for their help has currently risen to near record levels, partly as a result of growing complexity in the tax system combined with changes in working patterns
As Chancellor Philip Hammond calls for the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) to simplify the inheritance tax (IHT) regime, Sara White, editor of Accountancy, considers rising IHT payments and various IHT thresholds around the world
Confectionery giant Nestlé’s has lost its appeal to the Upper Tribunal over the VAT rating of its milkshake powders which leaves it facing a £4m tax bill for the strawberry and banana flavours, which are standard rated, but not the chocolate version which is zero rated for VAT
In the second part of our series on the changes in the US tax system, Donald Doran discusses the complex changes to the country’s earnings repatriation regime
Bill Dodwell, partner and head of tax policy at Deloitte, looks at tax treaties in the OECD’s efforts to curb international tax avoidance and arbitrage
The UK’s exit from the EU should be the trigger for a first-principles discussion of tax policy making, encouraging a much broader debate about how or whether the tax system can meet society’s needs, according to a report from think tank Common Vision (CoVi), which has been backed by CIOT
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