Prime Minister Theresa May used her first conference speech as Conservative party leader to pledge action on what she termed ‘tax dodgers’ and those who advise them, and said the government would push for workers to be given roles on company boards in a bid to improve governance

Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) is the key factor impeding the growth of the UK property and construction market at a time when the government is seeking to address the country’s housing crisis, according to research from Crowe Clark Whitehill

Philip Hammond has used his first speech to the Conservative party conference as Chancellor to break with his predecessor’s commitment to balance the budget by 2020, and has also made no mention of plans to reduce corporation tax rates any further than previously planned

Ahead of Philip Hammond’s first speech as Chancellor to the Conservative party conference later today, CIOT, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Institute for Government (IfG) are urging him to make immediate changes to the way tax policy is made, saying it remains ‘hard to discern a clear strategy for key parts of the tax system’

David Gauke’s successor as financial secretary to the Treasury is Jane Ellison, Conservative MP for Battersea, who does not share the same background in tax as her predecessor

The European parliament has rejected plans to cut the draft 2017 EU budget. The budget committee voted in favour of a proposed budget amounting to €161.8bn in commitments, €4.13bn more than the original Commission proposal, saying the EU needed to increase funding to fight youth unemployment and increased spending on research and infrastructure projects

A Labour government would introduce a living wage rate of at least £10 an hour and pledge to ‘end the social scourge of tax avoidance’, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has told the party's annual conference

The European Commission’s ruling that Ireland gave Apple state aid through a tax deal is indicative of a wider harmonisation of EU-wide tax policy, with VAT as a key plank of any reform proposals, says Nicholas Hallam, managing director of Accordance 

The Yorkshire Building Society is calling on the government to consider fundamentally changing the operation of stamp duty in a bid to help first-time buyers

The Treasury select committee is pressing for HMRC to consider delaying the introduction of Making Tax Digital (MTD), arguing there is insufficient time to respond to the recent swathe of consultation documents and that key issues still need to be addressed

The European Commission has released a list of 81 countries which they have pre-assessed with a view to possible screening over their tax policies and tax agreeements, which will ultimately form the basis of a global tax risk register

Former prime minister David Cameron collected a ministerial pay-off of around £17,000 when he left Downing Street following his EU referendum defeat, and is in line to receive £115,000 a year to pay for staff and office costs as long as he remains in public life