Following confusion over gift aid donations, HMRC has issued a clarification on the tax relief status of online donations to charity websites with messages signed by more than one person

In a Budget slanted towards smaller businesses and measures to boost growth, the fallout from unexpected decisions to slash a third off capital gains tax and increase the higher rate threshold left the Chancellor struggling to defend his position, says Sara White, editor, Accountancy 

As part of the ongoing investigation into the use of profit shifting by multinationals to offset tax liabilities, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on responsible tax, chaired by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, has called up OECD tax chief to give formal evidence at a session

In a Budget pitched for business, Accountancy analyses the key measures including capital gains tax cuts, a clampdown on disguised remuneration EBT-style schemes and increased SDLT for commercial property transactions

Ireland has been asked to provide more details about the country’s tax deal with Apple by the European Commission, which has spent more than two years investigating whether the arrangements with the technology giant broke the rules on EU state aid

Tax changes due to take effect in April, when there will be an additional 3% stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on the purchase of a second home, are having an impact on the market according to the  latest HMRC figures on UK property transactions, which show there was a 5.5% increase in the number of residential property transactions between January and February

The draft Finance Bill 2016 is due to published this week, on Thursday 24 March, and is scheduled to be given Royal Assent in July 2016

In less than a fortnight, Scottish taxpayers will start to pay the Scottish rate of income tax (SRIT), which means that each resident Scottish taxpayer will be issued with an S tax code prefix effective 6 April

As announced at Budget 2016, legislation will be introduced in Finance Bill 2016 to enable the 'English votes for English laws' procedure to apply to the UK main rates of income tax in light of new devolved tax powers for Scotland

Budget 2016 is a complex mixture of tax changes in the first revenue-neutral Budget of the parliament with some surprising decisions from the decision to cut CGT rates to a new Lifetime ISA for under 40s and a raft of BEPS measures including tougher interest deductibility rules, says Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at Deloitte

One of the government’s flagship family-friendly tax policies, the introduction of the Marriage Allowance for lower income couples, is floundering because of the difficulties taxpayers are experiencing in making a claim, according to analysis prepared by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)

In a Budget designed to stimulate business, the Chancellor announced a series of measures worth an estimated £10.8bn over the parliament to support small to medium-sized companies (SMEs), in particular, including cuts to capital gains tax (CGT) and corporation tax, an extension of entrepreneurs’ relief and a reduction in business rates