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

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

HMRC has published revised interim guidance for employment intermediaries on the regulations regarding personally providing personal services and supervision, direction or control (SDC), following the introduction of new rules on travel and subsistence measures

The introduction of country by country reporting for multinational businesses is meant to improve tax transparency and global momentum behind the move is growing, despite opposition, warns George Bull, senior tax partner at RSM

New legal requirements for large companies to publish an annual tax strategy outlining their approach to tax planning, will raise potential reputational risk issues for business as well as adding to the overall costs of compliance, warns  law firm Pinsent Masons

In a hectic month for tax cases, the long-running Rangers EBT case heads back to court, while bankers at Deutsche Bank and UBS lose fight with HMRC over taxability of bonus scheme, Revell beats HMRC over wrong address claims, while rollout of digital tax accounts leave taxpayers confused about compliance

Large businesses who are repeatedly accused of using aggressive tax planning and deemed to be 'uncooperative' with tax inspectors from HMRC are at risk of being put into a new ‘special measures’ regime which will apply to large business, as part of the government's crackdown on corporate tax avoidance

New rules to force large businesses and some partnerships to publish an annual tax strategy are set to come into force later this year and will affect 2,000 of the UK’s largest businesses with a penalty regime in place for those companies that fail to comply 

With an increasing number of phishing attacks from scammers purporting to be the taxman, HMRC has updated its guidance on how to distinguish between genuine contact and phishing attempts, with new information about identifying text messages, which it is using as part of a new security verification process for online accounts 

ICAEW is urging the government to make more information available about the making tax digital plans and the move to online filing of accounts, after research found 75% of UK businesses do not currently maintain their accounts electronically using accounting software

Download the HMRC capital gains tax (CGT) indexation allowance for December 2015

HMRC raised nearly half a billion pounds from investigations into the tax affairs of small businesses last year, according to data revealed by UHY Hacker Young following a freedom of information request, which warns that the introduction of specialist taskforces is likely to see scrutiny increase further