A Leicestershire doctor has been jailed for 18 months for evading almost £186,000 in tax after an HMRC team targeting undeclared income in the health sector discovered he was declaring only half of his total earnings

Businesses are investing millions of pounds each year sending employees on global assignments without being able to quantify the cost or measure the value from their investment while they are failing to monitor tax liabilities, according to research from PwC which says many organisations lack a clear global mobility strategy

Almost all of HMRC’s total take from a new tax on high value homes is collected from London properties, with homes in just four of the capital’s boroughs contributing most of the £100m raised

A man who threatened to bomb an HMRC tax office after he was arrested for not paying any income tax or national insurance on income of over £500,000 has been jailed for 21 months following an HMRC investigation

ATT is calling for taxpayers to be given a ‘last chance’ to declare offshore income and gains before the introduction of a tough new penalty regime, saying such a move would increase revenue to the Exchequer at little cost to HMRC

HMRC has updated the issue briefing on accelerated payments, first published in July 2014, to include an updated list (as at October 2014) of tax avoidance schemes on which users may be charged an upfront tax payment (ie, an accelerated payment)

Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been cleared of tax evasion following a successful appeal to Italy’s top court, and will no longer face the possibility of jail sentences

HMRC has announced that its specialist unit handling the tax affairs of the UK’s richest people posted a 20% increase in the additional revenues it brought in last year, bringing the total extra tax collected since its formation in 2009 to over £1bn