Universal Credit has been cited as the solution to deal with all benefit claims but the plan to focus the system towards an online portal has been met with difficulties. Primarily, as with any real-world service, moving the process to
Taxation
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UK tax evaders have been warned that there is a combined effort aimed at them and other industrialised nations who are part of the G7 group. Tax evasion in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Canada, France and Italy has been
E
xtra Statutory Concession A19 has been making headlines lately after HMRC recently campaigned to end ESC A19 altogether. The suggestion was to discontinue accepting situations where affairs weren’t in order for various reasons and where out of the ordinary
Tax Return deadline cut-off fines are likely to be issued by HMRC to between 500,000 to 1m late filers from today. £100 fines were already given to upwards of 800,000 self-assessment taxpayers who failed to submit their returns by the
“Only the little people pay taxes” – Leona Helmsley
Whilst there are many more to choose from, these are some of the most high profile tax scandals we have seen and reflect a good range of circumstances, from crafty dealings
Tax return cancellation prospect: Chancellor George Osborne announced last week that he was planning to scrap the annual tax return to simplify the process of paying tax for thousands of self-employed workers. While anything that purports to simplify an HMRC
All 281 of HMRC’s enquiry centres are to close by 2014.
The centres give face to face advice to around two and a half million tax payers and their closures will affect 1,300 jobs.
A flexible telephone service is to
You may have seen some stories in the news this week that HMRC have scaled back their winding up orders in recent months, with experts declaring the reason to be lack of cash to pay for insolvency services, as opposed
Following an exchange of emails I had last year with the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP on the issues addressed by the Public Accounts Committee of HMRC and multinational business tax avoidance, I was delighted to receive another email from
The old Rangers Football Club, currently in liquidation, has won an appeal against HMRC over its use of Employee Benefit Trusts (EBT’s).
Between 20001 and 2010, the club made payments to players and staff totalling £47.65 million to players and