HMRC has updated the 'fit and proper persons' declaration and guidance for managers of charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs claiming tax relief to clarify that anyone involved in a disputed tax avoidance scheme could be caught by the rules

More tax is lost to onshore evasion or non-compliance than to offshore evasion and avoidance, and HMRC is armed with a raft of tools to curb the practice.  In the second of a two part series, Jason Collins, a member of the CIOT’s management of taxes sub-committee and partner at Pinsent Mason, reviews government strategy and changes to the rules

From next month purchasers of new cars valued £40,000 and more will have to pay a five-year charge as well as the annual road tax rate, while cars registered before 1 April 2017 will not be affected 

Changes to inheritance tax are set to come into force from 6 April with the introduction of the long-expected nil rate inheritance tax (IHT) break applicable when a residence is passed on death to direct descendants

HMRC has updated its contact and phishing warnings guidance to inform self assessment (SA) online users that they could be contacted via telephone if HMRC has been unable to validate a repayment request, from 13 March 2017

HMRC has published guidance on the penalty regime for partnerships which have used a tax avoidance scheme in circumstances where a partnership follower notice has been issued to the representative partner and they have not taken the necessary corrective action on time

Irish businessman and racehorse owner J P McManus has lost a battle in the US courts over his claim that $5.2m (£4.25m) of US tax withheld on his gambling winnings from a game of backgammon should be refunded under the US-Ireland double tax avoidance treaty

A record number of finance directors at the UK’s largest businesses faced fines of £5,000 for failures in tax accounting last year, according to analysis by law firm Pinsent Masons, which says HMRC is getting tougher on any failures to comply with the senior accounting officer (SAO) regime

Dave Chaplin, CEO and founder of Contractor Calculator, outlines the steps public sector hirers and their contractors should take to ensure they are IR35 compliant as HMRC ramps up its powers and drags more self employed workers into the system

Sometimes it can be hard to keep up with the avalanche of government announcements on tax avoidance and evasion. In the first of a two part series, Jason Collins, a member of the CIOT’s management of taxes sub-committee and partner at Pinsent Mason, provides an overview of the rapidly changing tax compliance landscape for offshore evasion

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s tax affairs are under scrutiny after claims were made he may have failed to declare income as opposition leader on his newly-published tax returns

A leading barrister has failed in his latest appeal to an Upper Tribunal in a long running dispute about over more than £1m of penalties imposed by HMRC for his failure to comply with three information notices, two relating to income tax and one in connection with inheritance tax relating to the estate of his late father