Despite HMRC’s avowed intention of improving customer service performance, research by ICAEW has found little change to the quality of HMRC service standards over the past year, with 80% of agents polled failing to identify improvements

Ahead of the final March Budget, a trilateral meeting of the finance ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has called for the UK government to strengthen arrangements for consulting the devolved administrations in advance of future Budgets, and challenged plans for £3.5bn of further cuts in 2019-20

An HMRC crackdown on small and mid-sized businesses (SMEs) brought in an additional £468m in tax from investigations last year, according to research by UHY Hacker Young

A European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that the UK and Gibraltar should be deemed as ‘one entity’ in their freedom to provide services has struck a major blow to the island’s gambling industry, which was seeking exemption from the UK’s 15% point of consumption (POC) tax on gambling operators active in the UK

In the Autumn Statement 2016 Chancellor, Philip Hammond, confirmed plans to overhal the tax advantages of many salary sacrifice schemes, including company cars. David Hosking, CEO of Tusker unpicks the facts and truths behind the top ten most common misconceptions over upcoming tax change

Former Chancellor George Osborne is to join the world’s largest fund manager BlackRock as a part-time senior adviser

The National Audit Office (NAO) is to carry out an investigation looking at the risk of VAT evasion by overseas online retailers, which HRMC has estimated costs the Exchequer around £1bn a year

Jane Ellison, financial secretary to the Treasury, has pledged to maintain ‘a steady, predictable tax regime’ and states that there is a need for practical changes to increase certainty, in response to a debate within the accounting profession over how tax policy is best developed

Working-age people who give up their job to provide childcare for their grandchildren risk damaging their state pension entitlement because of failure to take up a little known benefit, designed to protect their National Insurance (NI) credits, according to analysis by insurer Royal London

Plans for radical reform of the US tax system to bring it more in line with global tax rules is a priority for Donald Trump's new administration. Jeff Whener, Jon Traub and Natalia Mityaeva at Deloitte unpick the possible key tax measures and their impact on business practice

HMRC is to add voice recognition to its options for taxpayers to confirm their identity to access its services, with the addition designed to speed up the security process

The Treasury has announced the formal launch of two new government-backed savings vehicles, the Lifetime ISA (LISA) and the Help to Save scheme, and has clarified their interaction with the existing Help to Buy ISA