The Treasury is seeking views on proposals for a major reform of the current VAT refund scheme for public bodies, in order to make it simpler to operate and improve value for money in the delivery of services

HMRC has warned that using remuneration trusts to replace income with loans and other forms of credit as a way of paying company directors is a form of tax avoidance

RSM’s Scott Harwood reviews a £1m VAT case that centred on whether the company was the provider of a service or merely acted as an agent for other service providers

In our regular Q&A series from Croner Taxwise, senior VAT consultant, Vivienne Scott explores what conditions need to be met for work on goods for export to be zero-rated

In this month’s VAT updates, Graham Elliott reviews uncertainty in EU distance selling ruling, the importance of checking customers’ residency, rent variations and electronic literature

HMRC has pulled the plug on a research project intended to examine the motives and behaviours of individuals who become involved in organised crime, due to a lack of participants, but is still planning to source insight in this area

There has been a steep increase in the amount of rental income from overseas property declared by UK taxpayers, which rose by 17% following a series of tax investigations campaigns by HMRC, according to analysis by Moore

UK businesses overpaid at least £9.1bn in corporation tax in the last year (year end 31 March), up 12.4% from £8.1bn the previous year, said UHY Hacker Young

With falling numbers and tax receipts, Crowe’s Richard Bull analyses the latest non-dom figures and questions how the government could replace urgently needed tax income

Facebook’s French subsidiary has agreed to pay €106m (£95.7m) in back taxes following a ten-year audit of its accounts by the French tax authorities

In our regular Q&A series from Croner Taxwise, VAT adviser, Priyesh Mistry defines the impact of the temporary rate change on the issue of face value vouchers, when the VAT will be due and at what rate

A taxpayer has won an appeal against penalties imposed for his failure to notify his liability for the high income child benefit charge (HICBC), on the grounds that ignorance of the law was a reasonable excuse and he was not required to ‘rummage’ through all of HMRC’s information sources