The Scottish government is consulting on plans to introduce a tourist tax to  enable local authorities in Scotland to apply a visitor levy on short-term overnight stays

The EU Directive on administrative cooperation in relation to tax, known as DAC 6, is out for a draft legislation consultation with the first reporting dates scheduled for August 2020. Meg Wilson CTA examines the impact on cross-border tax arrangements

The OECD is consulting on its global anti-base erosion (GloBE) proposal which is designed to prevent multinationals from profit shifting, by developing rules which would effectively create a minimum tax rate worldwide

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) is calling for improvements to HMRC’s individual tax account service to provide an end-to-end tax reporting and payment service for the self employed and buy-to-let landlords

The Solicitor Regulation Authority (SRA) is planning to launch money laundering investigations into 7,000 law firms after they discovered that too many were not complying with anti-money laundering regulations

The Scottish government is to introduce a charge on single-use drinks cups in a bid to reduce the amount of plastic used

The OECD is consulting on plans for a major change to the international rules on taxing multinationals (MNEs), including digital companies, so that they pay tax wherever they have significant consumer-facing activities and generate their profits

In this month’s tax updates, three BBC presenters lose IR35 case, Apple tax demand ‘defies reality’, Glencore wins £51m transfer pricing appeal, HMRC does not understand small business, 120,000 miss MTD deadline, double NIC Brexit warning, and NHS pension tax consultation

This month’s HMRC and Treasury consultations focus on disclosure of certain cross-border arrangements that could be used to avoid or evade tax, and amendments to new provisions extending taxation of gains accruing to non-UK residents to include disposals of interests in non-residential UK property

HMRC is consulting on draft amendments to legislation about the taxation of UK property rich collective investment vehicles and their investors, which are designed to ensure the new rules work as intended

This month's HMRC and Treasury consultations focus on an overhaul of Companies House' business disclosure regime, plans to simplify VAT capital goods scheme, cross-border tax disclosure rules and reduction in employment allowance NICs 2 threshold 

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has launched a project to review tax reporting and payment arrangements for self-employed people and buy-to-let landlords