Republicans have voted against releasing President Donald Trump’s tax law returns after Democrats attempted to use a forgotten 1920s law to order the Treasury to release the President’s returns to the ways and means committee, following Trump’s continued refusal

Farmers, small businesses and landlords are to give evidence to the Economic Affairs Finance Bill sub-committee on the government's Making Tax Digital project today

UK and overseas poker players competing in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament and other events held in the US risk their winnings becoming subject to a 30% US tax, after an expert in gambling taxation highlighted changes to the way the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to apply the rules

There has been a sharp drop in the amount of unpaid stamp duty land tax (SDLT) collected by HMRC over past year, which was a third of the previous year’s total, suggesting the crackdown on property-based tax avoidance schemes is having an impact, according to law firm Collyer Bristow

Plans to crackdown on abuse of the VAT Flat Rate Scheme (FRS) may be ineffective and have unwelcome consequences for tax compliant small businesses, claims CIOT

Making Tax Digital will be back in the spotlight on Wednesday as sneior HMRC officials are called up to give evidence at the House of Lords committee reviewing the draft clauses of the Finance Bill 

The Fair Tax Mark group, an independent accreditation process assessing corporation tax practices and reporting, has launched an interactive map showing businesses signed up to the scheme

HMRC and National Trading Standards, the body which protects consumer rights, have agreed to step up their exchange of information in order to crack down on rogue estate agents

The EU has signalled plans to ramp up its work to tackle harmful tax practices internationally, with the Council working group that oversees implementation of the EU's code of conduct on business taxation finalising a list of jurisdictions that are considered non-cooperative in tax matters to be published shortly

EU plans for country-by-country reporting could target a much broader base of multinationals if proposals from the European parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs to slash the current threshold are adopted

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has said it will now be publishing its corporation tax computation review later in March, after the spring Budget, and has also confirmed that Paul Morton will formally take over as tax director from John Whiting next month

Concerns are mounting that some self-employed workers are at risk of missing out on future pension payments because of a lack of clear communication between HMRC and the National Insurance office (NI office) over payment of Class 2 National Insurance contributions (NICs)