Over a hundred HMRC officers have been deployed on early morning raids at two football clubs - Newcastle United and West Ham -  with several arrests made in connection with allegations of tax fraud

Irish tax policy coupled with one of the lowest EU corporation tax rates at 12.5% could be at risk after the Apple ruling and with wider plans to introduce a consolidated single corporation tax rate across the EU27, reports Jaimie Kaffash

With less than a year to go before quarterly reporting starts for unincorporated businesses, self employed and landlords over the VAT threshold in April 2018, Stephen Relf ACA CTA, specialist tax writer at Wolters Kluwer, has pulled together a handy guide to key reporting dates for accounting periods for HMRC's Making Tax Digital 

In part three of our EU Directives series, Stefan Petrovski, accounting supervisor at Primexis, asks whether EU plans for a directive to introduce a consolidated European corporate tax base (CCTB) would work across disparate economic bases with individual tax codes, rules and rates

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has raised serious concerns about the impact of new rules on tackling tax avoidance which could have an unexpected impact on ordinary workers, particularly those hired through umbrella companies or outside standard PAYE contracts, for example cab drivers or delivery couriers

HMRC has opened a four-week consultation on plans announced at Budget 2017 to charge UK VAT on all telecommunication services, particularly mobile phone calls and internet browsing, used outside the EU by UK consumers

HMRC has updated its guidance on what happens during compliance checks on businesses, including details of what constitutes a ‘reasonable excuse’

The move towards an overhaul of the Dodd-Frank Act in the US is progressing with the issue of two executive orders following President Trump’s February announcement of a complete review of the effectiveness of the legislation 

Tori Spelling, the daughter of late multimillionaire media mogul Aaron Spelling and star of the TV show ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’, has allegedly seen $700,000 drained from the family bank account by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the latest episode in a long-running tax saga

From the new tax year 2017/18, the full amount of any foreign pension received by a UK resident will be taxable where no UK tax relief was given on the pension savings, replacing the old 90% limit

HMRC’s understanding of the amount of tax lost to online VAT fraud and error, which it says may be up to £1.5bn annually, and its efforts to tackle the problem, have been criticised by the National Audit Office (NAO) as lacking sufficient detail or urgency

A First Tier Tribunal (FTT) has dismissed an appeal from an investor in a film scheme against a penalty for failing to pay an amount specified in an accelerate payment notice (APN) by the due date because the sum he paid was allocated to a separate partner payment notice (PPN) for another scheme