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Business | Crowe launches probate advisory service

In a push to target estates and executors, Crowe has set up a probate advisory service, strengthening the firm’s tax advisory service for private clients

19 Mar 2025

Tax | Accountants, models and sports agents owe £101m in tax and penalties

An accountancy practice is in this month’s top 10 of deliberate tax defaulters owing £2.4m in unpaid tax and penalties, joined by son of Pakistan’s former prime minister

19 Mar 2025

Tax | HMRC clarifies subcontracted activities for SME R&D tax relief

The definition of subcontracted activities is critical to R&D tax claims by SMEs and the latest HMRC clarification sheds some new light, explains Richard Edwards, CEO of R&D Community

19 Mar 2025

Tax | Would a wealth tax really raise £460m a week?

With the UK tax burden at record highs, Chris Etherington, partner at RSM, is sceptical calls for a wealth tax stack up, not mention the sceptre of great sums on buses

19 Mar 2025

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Personal Tax

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Tax | Footballer loses £300k IR35 case at second try

Former footballer and Sky Sports pundit Phil Thompson has lost his appeal at the Upper Tribunal over long-running IR35 tax case

18 Mar 2025

Tax

Case Reports

Tax | Q&A: tax and travel expenses

In this week’s Q&A, Croner-i VIP Tax Team adviser Natasha Saina unravels the complexities of when to claim travel expenses for tax purposes when travelling between workplaces

18 Mar 2025

Tax | TikTok traders face capital gains tax clampdown

HMRC investigations into underpaid capital gains tax (CGT) have more than tripled in the past year with TikTok traders and crypto investors targeted

18 Mar 2025

Tax | Taxpayers lose £160k SDLT fight over multimillion pound houses

Four appellants have lost their appeal against paying the higher rate of stamp duty land tax on several high value houses after transferring ownership of previously owned properties

17 Mar 2025

Tax

Property Tax

HMRC

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Tax | Inheritance tax and writing life insurance in trust

Ingrid McCleave, partner at DMH Stallard, explores the practicalities of writing a life insurance policy in trust, arguing that it can be a successful way of mitigating the consequences of inheritance tax

17 Mar 2025

Tax | Register for webinar on non dom tax changes

Join our webinar focusing on the new rules on taxation of UK non doms on 18 March

14 Mar 2025

Tax | UK taxi firms take on Uber in Supreme Court VAT battle

Two UK taxi firms have joined forces to fight a £500,000 legal battle against VAT being incurred on private taxi rides outside of London if Uber wins its Supreme Court appeal in July

14 Mar 2025

Tax

VAT

Case Reports

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Business | Frankie Dettori files for bankruptcy over tax bills

Champion jockey and celebrity Frankie Dettori has gone bankrupt citing tax bills and a dispute with HMRC as the main reason

13 Mar 2025

Business

Restructuring & Insolvency

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax | Marriage tax claim refusal by HMRC not ‘unlawful’, rules court

A tax reclaim agency has lost an appeal for a judicial review at the High Court claiming that HMRC’s decision to refuse claims for marriage allowance was ‘unlawful’

13 Mar 2025

Tax

HMRC

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