EU plans to combat tax evasion have been postponed until after the referendum partly to avoid harming David Cameron’s campaign to stay in

Changes to the rules on benefits and expenses mean that fewer employers have to complete P11Ds but proper record keeping is vital to ensure that HMRC compliance meets stringent rules, says Meg Wilson CTA

The top 92 Premier and Football League clubs generated a record £4bn in revenues for the first time in 2014/15 as capital expenditure reached £305m, the most ever invested in a single season

Footballer Lionel Messi is due to give evidence at a court in Barcelona today to answer charges of tax fraud associated with his image rights and the use of offshore shell companies

The appetite for even the most standard tax planning is being dented by a raft of negative publicity around tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance, according to a survey of financial advisers by Old Mutual, with trusts and estate planning viewed as potentially risky

Referendum jitters delay consultations on digital tax accounts, rental toolkit for buy-to-let updated, and case reports on HMRC wins appeal in Fidex avoidance case, G4S loses appeal to offset parking fines as an expense and discovery assessments invalid in Bubb rules Court of Appeal

Graham Elliott, director, City & Cambridge Consultancy on membership subscriptions to philanthropic bodies, single farm mapyment entitlement units, rights in conversions, VAT exemption, issues over VAT2 form and default surcharge on wrongly charged VAT

A roundup of current consultations from HMRC, PRA and the Treasury, including employee share schemes NIC elections, underwriting standards for buy-to-let mortgage contracts, draft rules on corporate offence of failure to prevent criminal facilitation and OECD multilateral instrument for bilateral tax treaties

HMRC’s interpretation of employment allowance (EA) rules is a blatant misreading of the legislation and creates a headache for employers, warns David Heaton, employment tax expert

David Heaton, employment tax expert on the review on apprenticeship levy, changes to tax on benefits and voluntary payrolling

The key HMRC filing deadlines from June to October 2016 including last date for employee share schemes annual returns for SAYE, employers to agree PAYE settlement agreement for 2015/16 with HMRC and expenses and benefit forms P11D(b), P9D and P11D

HMRC has published the latest advisory fuel rates (AFR) for company car users, effective from 1 June 2016 reflecting the upward trend in forecourt fuel prices and changing the cc breaks for diesel cars