Tax | HMRC will keep phone lines open on SA deadline day

Dedicated self assessment helplines will be open this Saturday for taxpayers after HMRC caves to pressure and reverses decision to provide no service 

29 Jan 2026

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Employment agency loses appeal over £15m VAT invoice dispute

Court rejects appeal by Liverpool employment agency disputing tribunal jurisdiction over HMRC’s right to demand evidence of compliant invoices for multiple transactions

28 Jan 2026

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VAT

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | Tax filing deadlines: Jan - Jun 2026

Key dates for filing from self assessment for 2024-25 to year end CT instalments and planning for MTD for Income Tax

28 Jan 2026

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HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | HMRC claws back £325m in late tax return penalties

Taxpayers had to pay over a third of a billion pounds in fines and interest to HMRC after missing self assessment tax deadline last year

26 Jan 2026

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Avoidance scheme promoter wound up over £20m tax bill

High Court rules umbrella company Purity Limited can be wound up under HMRC’s powers to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes over multimillion pound tax debt, the first time this has happened

26 Jan 2026

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Employment Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | HMRC phone lines closed on self assessment deadline day

HMRC issues warning phone lines closed on self assessment deadline day as over three million taxpayers still need to submit tax returns and pay outstanding tax bills

23 Jan 2026

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | CGT hike causes 8.4% drop in tax take in 2025

Sales of assets were down in 2025 with tax on capital gains falling to £13.6bn, down from £14.9bn the previous year as taxpayers swerve higher rates

22 Jan 2026

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Business Tax

Employment Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Budget

Tax | Court sends £1m Medpro VAT appeal back to FTT

Court of Appeal rules for HMRC in latest round of long-running Medpro case over right to bring appeal out of time over £1.06m penalties for disputed VAT, determining Martland guidance ‘appropriate’

22 Jan 2026

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HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | Q&A: national insurance for state pension age workers

In this week’s Q&A, Vanessa Matthews, adviser at Croner-i VIP Tax Team, explains employer and employee national insurance liability when reaching state pension age

20 Jan 2026

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Employment Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | 5.6m people had wrong tax code last year

HMRC overcharged employees £3.5bn in income tax last year, with 5.6m people paying too much due to mistakes on tax codes in the PAYE system

19 Jan 2026

Tax

HMRC

Tax | Can’t pay self assessment bill by 31 January? Here’s what to do

For some small business owners and sole traders, the run-up to 31 January comes with a stressful reality: tax is due but the cash simply isn’t there, says Lee Murphy, managing director of The Accountancy Partnership

16 Jan 2026

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC phonelines down for 2.5 hours before tax deadline

With just two weeks until the self assessment tax return deadline, high demand saw HMRC phonelines unavailable for over two hours on Thursday

16 Jan 2026

Tax

HMRC

Technology

Business | Tax-free pension fraudsters jailed after ‘false promises’

Two men who stole £3.7m from pension savers by running a scheme offering early tax free access to pensions jailed owing £800,000 to HMRC

16 Jan 2026

Business

Called to Account

Tax

HMRC

Pensions

Tax | Frankie Dettori company has ‘insufficient funds’ to pay £765k tax bill

Following bankruptcy last year Frankie Dettori’s personal services company unable to pay £765k tax bill ‘due to insufficient funds’

15 Jan 2026

Tax

HMRC

Tax | HMRC ‘leading with kindness’, MPs told

In a subdued Treasury Committee, new HMRC boss tells MPs he is instilling ‘kinder environment’ at the tax authority, but faces recruitment difficulties with push to hire more than 5,000 staff

13 Jan 2026

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HMRC

Tax Compliance