Business | Frankie Dettori files for bankruptcy over tax bills

Champion jockey and celebrity Frankie Dettori has gone bankrupt citing tax bills and a dispute with HMRC as the main reason

13 Mar 2025

Business

Restructuring & Insolvency

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax | Marriage tax claim refusal by HMRC not ‘unlawful’, rules court

A tax reclaim agency has lost an appeal for a judicial review at the High Court claiming that HMRC’s decision to refuse claims for marriage allowance was ‘unlawful’

13 Mar 2025

Tax

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | R&D tax reliefs: requirements from a parallel universe?

Rocky Webb, enquiry consultant at Croner-i My VIP Tax Team, explains why it is so difficult to establish a baseline in a claim for R&D tax relief

13 Mar 2025

Tax

Business Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC to increase payments for tax whistleblowers

The UK is going to pay higher rewards to whistleblowers who tip off HMRC about tax fraud and evasion

12 Mar 2025

Tax

HMRC

Tax | What is a reasonable excuse for HMRC?

Andrew James CTA considers HMRC’s approach to the ‘reasonable excuse’ argument and when there could be grounds for acceptance in light of recent cases

12 Mar 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Glazer wins £730k VAT case as HMRC argument ‘tenuous’

HMRC has lost an appeal by a glazing company that hired labour for construction work after tribunal dismissed HMRC’s use of Kittel argument over fraudulent VAT charge

11 Mar 2025

Tax

VAT

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | Side hustle sales threshold raised to £3k a year

Up to 300,000 taxpayers will no longer have to file a self assessment tax return as Treasury increases annual threshold for reporting from current £1,000 figure but not until 2027

11 Mar 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Teachers losing jobs after private school VAT raid

Private schools have had to decide whether or not to push Labour’s 20% VAT charge onto parents or absorb the cost since 1 January, but teachers are already being hit by the tax rise

11 Mar 2025

Tax

VAT

HMRC

Tax | HMRC increases beneficial loan rate to 3.75%

Directors and employees in receipt of loans from their companies and employers will have to pay a higher interest rate from April for loans calculated using ‘precise method’

11 Mar 2025

Tax

Business Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Gardener loses £19k VAT appeal over registration dispute

A First Tier Tribunal VAT appeal over when a company was registered for VAT has been dismissed after representative accused HMRC of ‘illegally’ increasing VAT amount from sales

10 Mar 2025

Tax

Business Tax

VAT

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | HMRC clarifies tax rules on king size pickup trucks

There was confusion over what variations of pickup trucks will fall under the scope of the changes from April but HMRC has confirmed most pickups will be classified as cars for benefits-in-kind

10 Mar 2025

Tax

VAT

HMRC

Tax | Hastings Insurance wins £16m offshore looping VAT appeal

Insurance giant Hastings, owner of the Hastings Direct brand, has won a VAT appeal for over £16m related to a claim for input tax for supply of services in Gibraltar

7 Mar 2025

Tax

Business Tax

VAT

HMRC

Case Reports

Tax | HMRC employer helpline strikes extended to mid May

Businesses using employer helplines will be affected by another two months of strike action at HMRC’s Newcastle as union calls for HMRC to ‘get around the table’

7 Mar 2025

Tax

HMRC

HR

Work

Careers

Leadership & Management

Tax | Handy HMRC tool to calculate tax due on savings interest

As thousands breach annual tax free savings allowances, HMRC has launched a useful tool to work out how much tax is payable on savings interest and dividend income 

7 Mar 2025

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | MPs blast HMRC over excessive number of senior staff

Despite millions in funding, HMRC productivity levels continue to decline with large number of staff in senior positions, accusations of special treatment for high net worth taxpayers and an inundation of calls from pensioners

6 Mar 2025

Tax

HMRC