The Electoral Commission has confirmed the two lead campaign groups for the EU referendum, naming Britain Stronger in Europe as the lead campaigner for the yes vote, and Vote Leave Ltd for the ‘leave’ option, giving them access to up to £7m official funding, a nationwide leaflet drop and TV advertising slots.

If you thought the introduction of the dividend tax allowance was a year end issue, think again as HMRC is adding predictive dividend earnings to PAYE tax coding notices for the 2016/17 tax year, warns Jackie Hall, partner and employment tax expert at RSM, but it is possible to dispute the calculation

Jersey Finance has confirmed the line-up of speakers for its Annual Private Wealth Conference featuring leading tax and legal experts who will address hot topics for high net worth clients from trust legislation and its relevance today to private wealth management and social responsibility

An IT issue at HMRC means that self assessment taxpayers are unable to view or make changes to their submitted 2015-16 annual tax return

Government plans to levy a 3% stamp duty land tax (SDLT) surcharge on second home property sales will exclude annexes and so-called granny flats despite initial concerns that the measure would create a dual property transaction

The Supreme Court is set to hear an appeal from Eclipse Film Partners 35, the partnership which is challenging HMRC’s view that a tax avoidance scheme involving the rights to two Disney films amount to an investment, rather than a trading venture, and as such in HMRC's view does not qualify for £117m in film tax relief

Due to essential  IT maintenance, Companies House and HMRC joint filing online services will be unavailable from late evening on 15 April to the end of this weekend

The prime minister, David Cameron, is setting up a UK cross-government taskforce to deal with the leaks from the Panama Papers, following on from proposed joint action co-ordinated by the OECD

In the wake of the release of the Panama Papers, the UK is to bring forward plans to introduce a criminal offence for corporations who fail to stop their staff facilitating tax evasion, the prime minister will announce later today in a statement to the Commons

The OECD is to hold a meeting this week with senior tax officials from around the world to discuss their response and proposed actions following the Panama Papers revelations about scores of offshore accounts used for tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance

You might think, logically, that the beginning of the tax year would coincide with the calendar year – and in some countries it does. In the UK, however, the scramble to get your affairs in order comes to its conclusion on 5 April, with the new tax year starting on 6 April. To understand the reason for this apparently random date, you have to go back to medieval times, says Jane Frecknall-Hughes, professor of accounting and taxation, University of Hull

As part of a drive to simplify VAT across the 28 EU members states in light of the increasing share of borderless online sales, the European Commission has set out an action plan on VAT  to create a ‘single EU VAT area’ for cross-border digital sales with new proposals set for publication by 2017