The government is set to consult on plans to extend the scope of the criminal offence of a corporation ‘failing to prevent’ offending beyond bribery to include other economic crimes, such as money laundering, false accounting and fraud, saying it wants to ensure senior management takes responsibility for any financial wrongdoing which is uncovered

Former HMRC chief executive Dame Lin Homer has taken an unpaid role on the governing body of the University of Birmingham

On the back of HMRC’s plans to restructure, the opposition party, Labour, has revealed its own plans to reform HMRC, proposing the creation of a supervisory board, consisting of stakeholders, to improve on the quality of service, strengthen public accountability and tackle tax evasion, reports Amy Austin

The European Commission's decision on Apple's tax arrangements in Ireland caused a seismic shock in the business and tax worlds and raises questions about the EU’s motives, says Heather Self, partner at Pinsent Masons 

The G20 summit in China has stressed the need for international tax cooperation to achieve ‘a globally fair and modern international tax system’, after US President Obama warned of the risks if countries ‘race to the bottom’ in tax policies

Conservative MP, Kevin Hollinrake, has tabled an amendment to the Finance Bill calling for a cut in the capital gains tax (CGT) paid by landlords when selling a rental property to a sitting tenant

The Liberal Democrats have called for a 5p charge to be introduced on disposable coffee cups across the UK to cut down on usage and disposal, as more than two and a half billion cups are thrown away each year

A proposed amendment to the Finance Bill calls on multinationals to follow county-by-country reporting, could cause difficulties to the implementation of OECD international tax reforms, according to RSM

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has appointed Professor Anil Kashyap as a member of the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) increasing the number of external members to five

MPs are calling on the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, to reinstate distributional analysis of the effects of Budget and Autumn Statement measures in order to increase the transparency about the impact of tax changes, describing the move a year ago to drop these reports as a mistake and branding the replacement reports as ‘inadequate’

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has appointed three new non-executive directors to the board of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), with the aim of adding experience from academia, taxation policy and business to the body which is being put on a statutory footing in the Finance Bill 2016

Former Chancellor, George Osborne, has signed up to a US speaker agency where he could earn tens of thousands of pounds from giving speeches on politics and the economy