MEPs have voted to support a European Commission proposal for an EU anti-tax avoidance directive based on the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) action plan, and have indicated they want to push for stricter limits on deductions for interest payments and tougher rules on foreign income

Businesses will face an increase in financial and administrative burdens under proposals for UK rules on interest deductibility in light of OECD BEPS rules, says Daniel Head, partner of the global transfer pricing services team at KPMG

Jon Thompson, HMRC’s newly appointed chief executive, has identified low staff morale and the move to in-house IT provision as among the key challenges the department faces, and has told the Treasury select committee that some of the past criticisms of poor performance have been justified

Yvette Nunn CTA, director at Berkeley Associates, considers the complexity of wear and tear relief for landlords, outlining the winners and losers in the new relief for replacement of domestic items for landlords

Due to planned maintenance advisers and taxpayers will not be able to access HMRC Online Services overnight on 7 June

Switching from a paper tax disc to an online system for collecting Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) has prompted a fall of over £200m in the amount of tax collected by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) in the first six months of operation, new figures suggest

ICAS is warning that big business needs to do more to explain their approach to paying tax, after a survey found that only a third of those polled believe the UK’s largest companies are paying their fair share

HMRC has published guidance for charities to help them decide whether they have to report financial account information under the automatic exchange of information requirements, which are designed to curb aggressive tax planning

EU plans to combat tax evasion have been postponed until after the referendum partly to avoid harming David Cameron’s campaign to stay in

Changes to the rules on benefits and expenses mean that fewer employers have to complete P11Ds but proper record keeping is vital to ensure that HMRC compliance meets stringent rules, says Meg Wilson CTA

The appetite for even the most standard tax planning is being dented by a raft of negative publicity around tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance, according to a survey of financial advisers by Old Mutual, with trusts and estate planning viewed as potentially risky

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