Tax | HMRC to chase low value tax debt more aggressively

Direct recovery of debt powers to be extended to lower value tax debts worth up to £10,000, with direct access to bank accounts

24 Jun 2026

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Consultations

Tax | HMRC consults on ISA overhaul for first time buyers

Plans for new ISA aimed at first time buyers after 25% withdrawal charge from LISA punishes savers

24 Jun 2026

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Consultations

Tax | Monthly ‘payday’ tax bills for 7m self assessment PAYE taxpayers

In a radical move, HMRC plans to end twice-yearly tax bills for the seven million PAYE taxpayers inside self assessment, with monthly ‘payday’ payments

24 Jun 2026

Tax

Making Tax Digital

Personal Tax

HMRC

Consultations

Tax | Cash held in non-cash ISAs will be taxed at 22%

As expected, in a bid to stop abuse of stocks & shares ISAs, Treasury plans to tax cash funds held in stocks & shares ISAs despite denying this earlier after the usual multiple leaks

24 Jun 2026

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Planning

Budget

Politics

Business | Tax gap rises to £59.2bn dominated by small business non-payers

Ever rising tax gap hits 6.4% as HMRC figures show total uncollected tax hit £59.2bn, the highest figure ever with a £4.3bn rise in a year with small business accounting yet again for biggest share of non-payment and mistakes

23 Jun 2026

Business

Companies

Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC rolls out MFA multi-factor authentication for tax advisers

HMRC warning on first sign-up deadline for accountants to move to mandatory multi-factor authentication (MFA) to improve security on agent services accounts

23 Jun 2026

Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Technology

Tax | Q&A: dividend disclosures for close company directors

In this week’s Q&A, Vivienne Cheung, adviser at Croner VIP Tax Team explains the changes to self assessment tax return disclosures in SA102 for dividends paid to close company directors

23 Jun 2026

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Inheritance tax, pension pots and deprivation of assets

Pension tax changes could leave families facing huge care home bills if they do not undertake careful inheritance tax (IHT) planning with deprivation of assets a clear risk, warns Lisa Morgan, partner at Hugh James

22 Jun 2026

Tax

Inheritance Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister

In an emotional speech, Sir Keir Starmer announces resignation as Labour leader and prime minister kicking off leadership election

22 Jun 2026

Tax

Politics

Tax | Register for webinar on inheritance tax planning

Join our expert webinar on IHT planning and FICs at 2pm on 23 June      

22 Jun 2026

Tax

Inheritance Tax

Tax Planning

Business | Private school blames VAT on fees as factor in closure

Scottish private school Fernhill closes as provisional liquidator called in, follows resignation of auditor and charity regulator probe

19 Jun 2026

Business

Companies

Restructuring & Insolvency

Tax

VAT

Tax | HMRC and SLC ‘very sorry’ for student loan payment error

Problem with student loans system see over 70,000 graduates making overpayments after technical errors at Student Loans Company and HMRC

19 Jun 2026

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

HR

Careers

Tax | Income tax take up 53% since threshold freeze

Businesses face huge tax bill as employer national insurance up 8% year on year while income tax threshold freeze bites hard as taxpayers squeezed across earnings range

19 Jun 2026

Tax

Business Tax

Personal Tax

Inheritance Tax

VAT

HMRC

Tax | 110k taxpayers without accountant not registered for MTD

With the final deadline to register for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax looming, over 110,000 unrepresented landlords and self employed have not signed up, warns LITRG

18 Jun 2026

Tax

Making Tax Digital

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Billionaire trader loses £22.5m LLP tax case

Supreme Court rules earnings of LLP members of foreign exchange trading firm HFFX should have paid income tax on capital allocation via deferred remuneration arrangement

18 Jun 2026

Tax

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