The US government is facing calls to delay the introduction of a new tax on foreign investors in US equity-linked derivative transactions, after the G5 group of countries signalled their opposition and the US Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) indicated its members would not be ready for the planned 1 January 2017 implementation

An actress turned journalist who has been fighting HMRC’s refusal to allow her to make backdated National Insurance contributions (NICs) has lost her appeal to a First Tier Tribunal (FTT), and is now unable to increase her pension entitlement

The head of the HMRC has called on the government to review the ‘rather convoluted’ way in which some top-flight football players pay tax on image rights, after a specialist HMRC team dedicated to footballers’ tax affairs recovered £158m in additional yield over the past two years

First Tier Tribunals (FTTs) are to be given powers to issue partial closure notices (PCNs) once the Finance Bill 2017 gains royal assent

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has confirmed it is now placed on a permanent footing, with the triggering of legislation in Finance Act 2016

The government has published nearly 400 pages of new tax legislation setting out the draft provisions for Finance Bill 2017 for technical consultation, including changes to National Insurance contributions, clampdown on salary sacrifice contracts for new car schemes and simplification of PAYE Settlement Agreements

Our essential snapshot of the key measures announced in Autumn Statement 2016 and Finance Bill 2017, including salary sacrifice, disguised remuneration, NIC for self employed, reduction in MPAA limit and flat rate VAT scheme

Revised code of conduct to curb excessive tax planning, confidentiality breach over Ingenious, Trump tax plan, Lifetime ISA rules fleshed out, application for tax postponement allowed

There are reports that Boeing is about to be hit with a claim for up to $9bn (£7.23bn) in the latest stage of a long-running battle over claims of illegal tax breaks, with indications that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is set to find in favour of the EU which brought the latest complaint that the US aerospace manufacturer has broken state aid rules

Cross border inheritance is a thorny subject for UK residents with overseas financial interests, properties and tax liability, warns Jill Waddington, head of the private client team at Ridley & Hall

The First Tier Tribunal (FTT) has found in favour of a former ‘psychedelic soul’ rock musician of state pension age who was seeking to overturn an HMRC ruling preventing him from making over 30 years of late payments of backdated Class 2 National Insurance contributions (NICs), on the grounds that this was not due to a failure to exercise due care and diligence

MEPs have faced calls for a European register of beneficial owners of companies, along with stronger action to counter money laundering, during a meeting of the European Parliament’s Panama Papers inquiry committee which was given details of initial findings from the data