The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is to consult on proposals giving full flexibility over the amount senior clinicians put into their pension pots, to stem the rising numbers of doctors cutting their hours and leaving the NHS because of tax issues

Bill Dodwell CTA (Fellow), head of the Office of Tax Simplification, examines the complexities of reforming council tax where the regressive nature of the tax bands does not reflect property valuations

 In our regular Q&A series, Croner Taxwise’s Marsha Haywood unravels the tax consequences of using a bare trust to hold money gifted by a parent to a child

The wealthiest taxpayers are predominantly male and middle aged, with those living in London earning income of over £700,000 a year, which places them in the top 300,000 earners in the UK, according to analysis by the Institute of Fiscal Studies

Julie Clift, tax writer at Croner-i, looks at how the optional remuneration (OpRA) rules apply when an employee decides to take the cash rather than the company car, as well as other changes to salary sacrifice rules

The number of people paying capital gains tax (CGT) has hit 281,000 as the government collected a record £8.8bn in the last tax year, with total chargeable gains hitting £57.9bn in 2017-18

Inheritance tax receipts hit £5.36bn in 2018/19 marking a record gain for the Treasury as more estates are sucked into the IHT net

The Treasury Committee is calling for an overhaul of the way HMRC deals with vulnerable taxpayers, saying the tax authority is failing to support them and needs to go back to basics 

The key HMRC filing deadlines from August to December 2019 including deadline for estimated first Making Tax Digital submission falls one calendar month and seven days after end of relevant VAT quarter, forms P46(Car) for quarter ended 5 Jul (where benefits not payrolled) to HMRC and public sector employment intermediary’s quarterly report

Stephanie Webber, tax writer at Croner-i, explains how to use capital gains tax (CGT) relief of up to £1m on gains by taking advantage of the reduced tax rate using investors’ relief, effective from April 2019, highlighting potential pitfalls and interplay with entrepreneurs' relief

Some taxpayers face unexpected tax bills due to a technical error with HMRC’s IT system which means that self assessment statements were sent out with the wrong information

HMRC has scored a win at the Upper Tribunal as judges rule that the Ingenious film scheme was tax avoidance with the tax authorities expecting to recoup millions in unpaid taxes