Business | HMRC hikes fees 33% for AML supervision at accountancy firms

Accountancy firms will have to pay significantly higher fees to HMRC for anti-money laundering (AML) supervision from this December

13 Nov 2025

Business

Companies

Accountancy Firms

HMRC

Finance

Corporate Governance

Tax | Winter fuel payments land in bank accounts

Not all the nine million pensions receiving a winter fuel payment into their bank accounts from today will be able to keep the benefit as it will be taxable for several millions

12 Nov 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Politics

Tax | Christmas hustlers risk big tax bills

People selling homemade crafts and Christmas cards at markets this December need to keep within the £1,000 side hustle threshold, or face a demand from HMRC

12 Nov 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Payroll expert seconded to HMRC for BIK payrolling overhaul

After delaying the original mandatory reporting rollout by a year, HMRC calls in payroll expert for 18-month secondment to help with development of mandatory payroll expensing for businesses

10 Nov 2025

Tax

Employment Tax

HMRC

Tax | Understanding the tax implications of buying crypto

A surge in HMRC letters to crypto investors is causing widespread concern about a lack of awareness about their individual tax liability, warns Neil Tipping, lead tax enquiry consultant at Croner-i VIP Tax Team

6 Nov 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Letter blitz as HMRC cracks down on crypto investors

In a big push to improve tax compliance, HMRC sent out over 65,000 nudge letters to hobby crypto traders it suspects of underpaying tax on gains, while holders not clear about tax rules

30 Oct 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Security dog handlers lose £88k PAYE tax dispute

Specialist canine security firm loses tax dispute over application of agency legislation in section 44 to 47 of ITEPA to pay dog handlers as animals are plant

30 Oct 2025

Tax

Employment Tax

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | Q&A: tax liability when converting loans to shares

In this week’s Q&A, David Woolley ATT, tax adviser at Croner-i VIP Tax Team, explains the tax considerations for funding bonds when converting a loan to a company into shares under s322(4) debt to equity rules

28 Oct 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax | Half of £2bn Patent Box tax break goes to 10 companies

Pharma giant GSK is one of the major beneficiaries of the generous Patent Box tax break, receiving tax relief of £486m in one year alone 

27 Oct 2025

Tax

Business Tax

HMRC

Tax Planning

Tax | Paper tax return deadline on 31 October final reminder

Any taxpayers still doing a paper self assessment tax return must file their 2024-25 forms by Friday 31 October, which means getting them in the post sharpish

24 Oct 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Top 1% pay third of income tax and CGT

Just half a million people pay a third of income tax and capital gains tax (CGT) with 100 of the ultra high net worth individuals shelling out £4.11bn in a single year

23 Oct 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Planning

Tax | Businesses not ready for inheritance tax ‘hassle’

‘Worryingly low’ number of businesses are aware of changes to business property relief (BPR) and risk of higher inheritance tax bills

21 Oct 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Inheritance Tax

HMRC

Tax | £71.2bn September tax take won’t plug fiscal black hole

 Tax take for September hit £71.2bn, up an eye watering £7.7bn on the same time last year, highlighting the shocking impact of soaring tax rates and fiscal drag

21 Oct 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Business | Pre-pack saves some Pizza Hut restaurants

Pizza Hut has been sold in a prepack deal to US hospitality giant saving only 64 restaurants after private equity backed owner faced HMRC winding up petition

21 Oct 2025

Business

Companies

Private Equity

Restructuring & Insolvency

Tax

HMRC

Tax | HMRC website hit by Amazon Web Services outage

Online services at HMRC were knocked out by global outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for several hours on Monday morning, putting burden on phone lines

20 Oct 2025

Tax

HMRC

Technology