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Tax | Kensington, Chelsea and Finchley pay £364m inheritance tax

Three London boroughs top the charts for paying the most inheritance tax in the country while Esher and Walton in Surrey is the biggest payer outside London and frozen thresholds drag 13% more estates in

1 Aug 2025

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Inheritance Tax

Tax Planning

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Tax | Tax filing deadlines: Aug to Dec 2025

Key dates including first filings for MTD for Income Tax volunteers, quarterly P46 (car) forms

1 Aug 2025

Tax | Stamp duty chancers warned by HMRC

HMRC plans to clamp down on ‘bogus stamp duty claims’ as Court of Appeal decision solidifies stamp duty land tax (SDLT) remains chargeable on homes under repair

31 Jul 2025

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Property Tax

HMRC

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Tax | 31 July deadline to pay outstanding tax bills

Individual self assessment taxpayers who have not paid their tax bill to HMRC must pay by 31 July or face fines and punitive interest

31 Jul 2025

Tax | Feeding the backlog - hike in tax prosecutions will not work

Forcing more prosecutions into the crown court backlog will not recover lost taxes for HMRC in a swift, guaranteed and cost-effective way, says Sharron Boyce, associate at Brett Wilson

31 Jul 2025

Tax | HMRC part loses £10m trainee pilot VAT case

A middleman between trainee pilots and commercial airlines has won a VAT fight at tribunal as the training taking place in other countries fell out of the scope of UK VAT

31 Jul 2025

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HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | 1.4m taxpayers to be sent HMRC tax demand

Despite HMRC claiming to be reducing the amount of post it sends, it is gearing up to send 1.4m letters to those not paying taxes through PAYE or self assessment

30 Jul 2025

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HMRC

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Business | Register for webinar on AI for accountants

Join our webinar on AI and the future of tax and accounting on 5 August with a panel of experts

30 Jul 2025

Tax | Gig workers against HMRC deducting tax at source

People earning income from the gig economy and side hustlers are wary about the possibility of HMRC deducting tax directly from earnings via online platforms

29 Jul 2025

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HMRC

Tax Compliance

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Tax | Uber VAT appeal driven out by Supreme Court

Taxi giant Uber has lost appeal over way VAT is charged as Supreme Court rules that operators cannot be forced to apply VAT to passenger fares in a landmark decision affecting online hailing platforms and bricks and mortar cab companies

29 Jul 2025

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VAT

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Business | One in five SMEs struggle to pay tax bills

Nearly 500,000 SMEs have missed tax payment deadlines in the past three years with 19% admitting to missing five or more in the past 12 months

29 Jul 2025

Business | HMRC bins MTD for corporation tax

As HMRC dropped its ‘transformation roadmap’ last week a small section of the lengthy document confirmed Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Corporation Tax has been canned

28 Jul 2025

| Croner-i launches CPD Navigate Learning app

Accountants can now access CPD modules via the new Navigate Learning app on Croner-i, available on Apple App Store and Google Play

28 Jul 2025

Tax | HMRC to clamp down on employee car ownership schemes

Nearly 80,000 company car and van drivers will be hit by the removal of the tax benefits of employee car ownership schemes (ECOS) from next year as income tax liability comes into play

28 Jul 2025

Tax | HMRC backs down on £60k eBay trading enquiry

Casual online selling can lead to an unwanted HMRC intervention over taxable trade, warns Bash Khanzada, consultant at Croner-i VIP Tax Team

25 Jul 2025

Tax | Capital gains tax revenue slumps by 18%

Uncertainty about rates and slashing the annual exempt allowance have all contributed to a drop in capital gains tax revenues, showing revenue down by a fifth to £12bn in a single year

24 Jul 2025