Baroness Neville-Rolfe, in a speech on business growth and tax , revealed that the addition of “hundreds of complications” over the pas...

As loyal readers, and non readers, are aware the number of scams whereby the perpetrators claim to be HMRC are on the rise. BBC R...

The Scottish Parliament has passed its Budget Bill for 2018/19, which introduces five tax bands and rates for Scottish taxpayers. These n...

I will leave this extract of an FT article here, and invite comments: " A taxpayer has lost a £3.1m dispute after a judge said th...

As this recent article in the FT shows, HMRC software simply isn't up to the job: " Software glitches are putting thousands o...

The longest finance bill ever, coming in at a stonking 762 pages (plus more than 400 pages of explanatory notes) was published on Marc...

"It's not that we want to decide the tax, we just want to understand it" says @margarethodge at the @taxinparliament #T...

Osborne once (2007) called for the tax system to be simpler, in 2010 he set up the Office of Tax Simplification. Fast forward to the 2...

Kudos to HMRC for holding consultations events re "simpler tax payments" during the busiest time of the year for tax professi...

All MPs should have to fill in own tax returns with only HMRC helpline @hselftax #arctaxmyths — Judith Freedman (@JudithFreedman) Nov...

HMRC had rather boxed itself in wrt it's decision not to recognise electricity as a fuel, when used in electric cars. Some organisa...

Those of you who think that tax is already way too complicated ain't seen nothing yet. As from April 2016 the Scottish Parliament w...

The latest handbook on tax legislation (as per Smith & Williamson ) now runs to a staggering 20,300 pages, and eight volumes (as opp...

Now that the General Election is done and dusted, will our political masters address the complex monster that has become the UK tax syste...

Chaos is now the operative word for our dysfunctional tax system. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has looked at the system, and notes...

A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) underestimates the number of tax reliefs an...

According to a survey recently published by Which? , 38% of people who fill in their tax return online struggle with jargon on the HMRC w...

HMRC really pushing things-not only have to hang on for ever to discuss coding but also gives inane mini lecture about personal allowances....

Last week I wrote about a government "concession" wrt an EU VAT rule that will come into force 1 January 2015 , regarding VAT r...

It seems that lobbying by the media, and the creation of an online petition, has spurred the Government to change a VAT rule that thousa...