A third of tax returns are currently outstanding, with just a week to go to the self assessment filing deadline according to HMRC, which says it is expecting an additional three million returns before 31 January

Eight jurisdictions have been removed from the EU's list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes, including Barbados and Panama, after senior politicians in those regimes made commitments to address the EU’s concerns over their tax practices

HMRC has launched a technical consultation on secondary legislation to extend landfill tax to illegal waste sites and to clarify the definition of ‘taxable disposal’, following changes to the regulations for England and Northern Ireland from 1 April 2018

Following IT problems with the self assessment pre population service, HMRC has now confirmed that the system is up and running, so taxpayers can see pre-poluated data when they log into accounts but there are still problems with setting up a direct debit

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued additional guidance (Notice 2018-13) for computing the transition tax on the untaxed foreign earnings of foreign subsidiaries of US companies under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

HMRC has published guidance for companies to work out and claim relief from corporation tax on terminal losses, capital losses and property income losses

A disagreement between HMRC and Coca-Cola over the benefit in kind tax status of crew cab vans has left some businesses and their tax advisers in limbo as the soft drinks giant loses its case at the First Tier Tribunal over vehicle classifications, warns Brent Goodwin, senior VAT manager at Newby Castleman

MPs have asked HMRC to investigate Ryanair and the agencies it uses to supply cabin crew, to ensure that they are paying at least the national minimum wage/national living wage (NMW/NLW) to all their staff, after the airline failed to supply answers about its payment practices to two select committees

The government’s newly formed taskforce set up to monitor and advise on mitigating the impacts of Carillion’s liquidation on construction firms has had its first meeting

The European Commission is proposing to give member states more flexibility to set VAT rates, and is to extend the VAT exemptions that exist for domestic companies to SMEs trading cross-border, in a bid to encourage business growth and compliance

The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) is warning that delays in releasing specifications for the software needed to file VAT returns digitally under HMRC’s Making Tax Digital initiative risk leaving some business facing a troublesome mid-accounting period change

If the threat of robots taking people’s jobs in the future proves true then corporation tax must increase to offset the impact of reduced tax revenues from income tax and national insurance contributions (NICs), explains George Bull, tax partner at RSM