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

Crowe Clark Whitehill tax partner Laurence Field examines how tax policy will develop after the general election on 8 June, with all parties set to seek extra revenues, despite varied claims about reducing the tax burden for business in the case of the Conservatives and a return to pre-2010 corporation tax rates from Labour

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has made the abolition of Scottish limited partnerships a key plank of its armoury against tax evasion in its 2017 election manifesto

HMRC has updated the inheritance tax (IHT) calculator to include details on the nil-rate band for inheritance tax, which came into effect in April and gives married couples and civil partners a higher IHT allowance, set to reach £1m by 2020

Neither the Conservatives’ nor Labour’s manifestos address the long-term challenges faced by the public sector, according to assessment by the Institute for Fiscal Studies

Spain's Supreme Court has confirmed a 21-month jail term for Barcelona striker and Argentinian football international Lionel Messi, for charges of tax fraud, but the player is unlikely to be sent off the pitch to serve time in prison

HMRC has won a £3.1m case at a First Tier Tribunal (FTT) where part of the argument centred on whether or not the tax authority could challenge calculations derived from third party software developed to meet its own technical specifications, which may have implications for Making Tax Digital implementations

A year on from a concerted clampdown by HMRC, disguised remuneration schemes involving gold bullion are still being marketed to clients

Speaking at the launch of the UKIP manifesto, deputy chairman Suzanne Evans has said it is the only party going into the forthcoming election to pledge not to raise taxes, with plans to introduce a £13,500 threshold for paying income tax by the end of the next parliament

Despite people over the pension age being the fastest growing group of cohabitees, many are missing out on tax breaks, such as inheritance tax benefits, and state pension rights which are only available to married couples, according to research by Royal London

Ride-hailing pioneer Uber has admitted it owes its New York drivers tens of millions of dollars following an accounting error in the way in which it calculated their commission, by using a figure which included state taxes rather than a pre-tax fare

Scottish people living outside the UK are at risk of paying the incorrect tax as a result of confusion over whether they should be treated as Scottish or UK taxpayers, the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) warns