Tax | Apple loses latest round of €13bn Irish tax dispute

Apple has been dealt a blow as a legal expert at the European Central Court has indicated that the IT giant should pay €13bn (£11.6bn) in back taxes to Ireland

9 Nov 2023

Tax

Tax Compliance

Case Reports

Tax | Revenue Scotland stops use of email agent comms

Revenue Scotland will no longer accept emails from tax agents and accounts related to the SETS online tax collection system

8 Nov 2023

Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | J5 cyber event focuses on crossborder tax evaders

The J5 Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement has run a cyber challenge focused on data mining and financial reporting to target tax criminals

6 Nov 2023

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International Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Paper VAT registrations end on 13 November

HMRC will be scrapping paper VAT registrations and mandating online only sign-ups next week

6 Nov 2023

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VAT

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Hike in directors trying to avoid tax debt by dissolving business

Directors trying to dissolve their own companies to avoid paying debts and tax bills have seen a threefold increase in objections by creditors in the past two years

6 Nov 2023

Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | Sheffield Wednesday avoids penalty by paying tax bill

Championship football club, Sheffield Wednesday has escaped a transfer embargo after paying outstanding wages and a tax bill totalling £2m

3 Nov 2023

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HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Filing deadlines: November - December 2023

Our handy guide to tax filing deadlines for P46 forms and corporation tax returns due for accounting periods ended 30 November 2022

1 Nov 2023

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Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | Accountants call for drastic improvements to HMRC service

Accountants are struggling to work with HMRC at even the most basic level and are calling for urgent improvements

1 Nov 2023

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HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Q&A: tax on share distributions

In this week’s Q&A, Stephen Fletcher, Croner-i explains the income tax implications of distributions from stocks and shares in a UK and overseas company

31 Oct 2023

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Personal Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax Planning

Tax | HMRC plans IT downtime this weekend

As part of plans to upgrade IT systems, HMRC will be closing parts of their website over the weekend with limited support from webchat advisors

30 Oct 2023

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Employment Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | HMRC issues tax rebate scam warning

Scammers impersonating HMRC are targeting taxpayers offering tax rebates and threatening them over fictitious demands for unpaid tax 

26 Oct 2023

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Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance

Tax | Treasury strategy on tax avoidance promoters haphazard

Government plans to introduce two-year jail sentences for tax avoidance abuse could backfire if promoters move offshore to avoid risk, accountants warn Lords committee

25 Oct 2023

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HMRC

Tax Compliance

Politics

Tax | Warning on tax liability as state pension rises

HMRC is writing to taxpayers who will incur a tax liability on their state pensions removing them from self assessment, but are providing no indication of how the tax will be collected, says Sara Bonavia, associate director at RSM

25 Oct 2023

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Personal Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | Billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax

Offshore tax evasion by wealthy individuals is down by a third in the last decade as tax authorities share bank account information, but they pay less than 1% of their wealth on tax

23 Oct 2023

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Business Tax

Personal Tax

International Tax

Tax Compliance

Tax | Use of trusts for tax planning in serious decline

Changes to rules have seen a hike in the number of trusts on the Trust Registration Service but a minority of trusts and estates submitted tax returns

23 Oct 2023

Tax

Personal Tax

HMRC

Tax Compliance