After a raft of senior departures from HMRC, two temporary director generals have been appointed to replace Jennie Granger and Ruth Owen at the tax authority on an interim basis, taking over responsibility for the critical portfolios of business tax, Making Tax Digital and compliance, and customer services, although neither are permanent appointments

There are claims that ‘hundreds’ of KPMG partners could face large tax bills as a result of an ongoing and unresolved dispute between HMRC and the firm over historic eligibility claims

HMRC carried out 362 reviews into businesses' transfer pricing practices last year, with the amount of tax potentially unpaid or in dispute rising to £3.8bn, according to figures compiled by law firm Pinsent Masons

HMRC needs to learn lessons from its unpopular, defunct business record checks programme and needs to begin to invest in its systems ahead of Making Tax Digital, says Yvette Nunn, director of Berkeley Associates 

As the June snap election looms, Calum Fuller asks tax advisers what tax policy they are looking for from the new government with certainty and a stop to the constant changes to tax rules at the top of the agenda

Despite efforts to move all tax transactions online, HMRC continues to experience IT problems, with the free corporation tax online return service failing to display the final submission status during filing, meaning that company filers will have to double check submissions

The chair of Ireland's Revenue Commissioners has said he is almost ‘100% certain’ that there will be no additional customs posts placed along the border with Northern Ireland post-Brexit

The European Council has adopted an anti-avoidance directive to prevent corporate groups exploiting hybrid mismatches between EU tax systems and those of non-EU countries, coming into force from 1 January 2020

This month's review of tax cases and tax news including Mauritian trust management UK based, Icebreaker members’ appeal dismissed, appeal against penalties denied and, Making Tax Digital dropped from Finance Bill 2017

A roundup of current consultations from HMRC, including Making Tax digital penalties, VAT fraud, CGT change for non-resident companies, taxation of employee expenses

The key HMRC filing deadlines from Jun to December 2017 including deadline for expenses and benefit forms P11D(b), P9D and P11D, online CIS returns, PAYE settlement agreement

The third rise in Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) in under two years from 10% to 12%, effective from 1 June, could add an extra £47 to the average annual household bill with the average car insurance policy expecting to hit £800