Five men, including two who were already in prison for a previous VAT fraud conviction, have been sentenced after an investigation by HMRC into a £600,000 tax fraud carried out at two curry house restaurants

An overhaul of PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSA) is long overdue and the latest proposals could simplify the current administrative inflexibility over expenses and benefits in kind, making the system less subjective, says Andrew Brookes, head of employer solutions at Menzies

The volume of UK tax law is often criticised as every year another 600 pages are added to the tax code, but increased transparency with the publication of company tax strategies is a welcome development. Bill Dodwell, partner and head of tax policy at Deloitte considers the growing impact of so-called soft law on taxpayer behaviour at a corporate level 

An overhaul of the road tax system from April 2017 will mean that purchasers of new cars valued over £40,000 will face a five-year charge in addition to the annual road tax rate, which is set on a sliding scale

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said the move had prompted over 100,000 taxpayers to come forward, and credited the introduction of automatic third-party account reporting with accelerating the process.

Wales could lose ‘hundreds of millions’ a year in tax revenues if a deal to devolve tax powers to Cardiff does not take into account lower incomes and slower population growth in the country, a report suggests

The controversial tax credit contract outsourced to Concentrix, which has been slated by MPs for serious customer service failures, is being brought back in-house with immediate effect, with existing private sector staff transferring to work at HMRC in Belfast

Three Kent men including accountant Aquil Ahmed have been jailed after a two-and-a-half year payroll fraud that saw them steal £6.9m of UK taxes

With the Christmas season approaching, HMRC has won an appeal to the Upper Tribunal over the issue of VAT on the hire of pitches for stalls at organised events such as game fairs, rural shows and craft fairs, which has overturned the previous ruling by a First Tier Tribunal (FTT) that no VAT was due

Katharine Braddick has been appointed to the role of director general, financial services at the Treasury following an external recruitment process

Bury Football Club is facing another winding up petition from HMRC, following on from one which it successfully challenged earlier this year, and claims the tax authority is ‘intent on winding a football club up'

Yvette Nunn CTA is critical of HMRC’s digital first tax policy after a number of tribunal cases illustrate how easily mistakes can be made