Tax | Tax Freedom Day keeps coming later as fiscal drag bites

Brits are working longer than ever before the annual Tax Freedom Day comes around, having to put in 162 days of grind before their income becomes their own

12 Jun 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax | Strike at HMRC Newcastle ends but no resolution

A six-month run of strike action at HMRC’s office outside Newcastle is over, but HMRC refused to reinstate sacked staff leaving PCS union considering next steps

12 Jun 2025

Tax

HMRC

HR

Work

Careers

Tax | PAC chair demands transparency from HMRC boss

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) grilled HMRC boss for the first time kicking off with probing questions about the £49m phishing scandal that came to light last week

12 Jun 2025

Tax

HMRC

Politics

Tax | Spending Review: HMRC given £500m for move to 90% digital

The chancellor has earmarked an additional £500m for HMRC to force 90% of interactions with tax authority online only by 2030 with inheritance tax paper process a priority

11 Jun 2025

Tax

HMRC

Politics

Tax | Financial intermediary wins £250k VAT appeal

HMRC has lost a £250,000 VAT case after tribunal ruled a sales lead company was acting as an intermediary when providing sales leads to independent financial advisors (IFAs)

11 Jun 2025

Tax

VAT

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | MPs ‘alarmed’ by HMRC failure to notify £47m phishing attack

The chair of the Treasury committee has sent a scathing letter to the newly appointed CEO of HMRC after he failed to tell MPs about a large-scale phishing attack affecting 100,000 taxpayers

11 Jun 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Business | Labour in Catch-22 ahead of spending review

Alison Ring, ICAEW director of public sector and taxation, looks at the tough choices facing the Chancellor and why HMRC needs more than temporary funding bursts

9 Jun 2025

Business

Companies

Accountancy Firms

Tax

HMRC

Politics

Tax | Dance instructors lose VAT exemption appeal

Dance teachers who ran private lessons appealed against VAT assessments by HMRC as they argued their classes were commonly taught in schools

9 Jun 2025

Tax

VAT

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | HMRC restores phone lines after outage

Following a total shutdown of HMRC’s phone lines midway through Wednesday, all helplines were restored by 8am this morning, but HMRC does not know why the system went down

5 Jun 2025

Tax

HMRC

Tax | Register for webinar on tax tribunal tips

Sign up for our webinar on 10 June at 2pm

5 Jun 2025

Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | World darts champion owes HMRC £465k

A former world darts champion has been banned from acting as a company director after withdrawing hundreds of thousands of pounds while owing over £460,000 of tax debts

5 Jun 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Drycleaners lose £25k tax appeal over Bank Holiday pricing

The owners of a dry cleaners in Camden have lost an appeal against personal liability notices (PLNs) after failing to prove the average price of their service was lower than HMRC said

5 Jun 2025

Tax

Business Tax

VAT

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Case Reports

Tax | HMRC raked in £252m from late payment interest

Over just three years HMRC collected over half a billion pounds in late payment interest after hikes in interest rates saw the figure rise by almost £100m in a single year

5 Jun 2025

Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | All HMRC phonelines down in major outage

The entire HMRC phone system has been hit by a serious technical issue which means inbound callers are only met with a recorded message saying the service is down

4 Jun 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC online accounts hit by unauthorised access

Up to 100,000 taxpayers’ online personal tax accounts have been locked down after HMRC security systems detected unauthorised access to some accounts, having identified the issue nearly a year ago

4 Jun 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC