Following the increase in the Bank of England base rate to 0.75% from 2 August 2018, HMRC has announced an increase in the rates of int...

Citywire reports that HMRC could avoid paying up to £5 billion in interest on tax refunds after a landmark Supreme Court judgement at t...

As taxpayers know, when it comes to tax nothing is ever as simple as it first may appear. This lesson was learned by savers who earn ca...

On Friday I wrote that the SFO had been fined by HMRC because of non payment of VAT liabilities. It seems that the SFO isn't the o...

HMRC has lost a High Court case against retailer Littlewoods, and will have to pay Littlewoods £1.2BN in compound interest on VAT overpaym...

How nice to read that, during this time of economic crisis, HMRC is advising struggling businesses applying to defer taxes to "max out...

Oh dear it has been a "testing" few days from those "running" HMRC, hasn't it? "Dame" Lesley Strathie (wil...

The Observer last Sunday highlighted a rather obscure tax trap that can catch out teenagers, who rely on receiving their interest gross. Sa...

The Times has reported the result of the first adjudication issued by the new Upper Tribunal for Tax Matters. Companies waiting to receive ...

Nationwide and HMRC are having a few interesting exchanges over HMRC's request to Nationwide to disclose details of its customers with o...

There are two certainties in life, death and taxes. The Treasury has, over the last 30 years, managed to combine the two via imposing the in...

Aside from the civil liberties issues of granting HMRC (ie the state) more power to invade the privacy of individuals, for I suspect preciou...

Errmm...here is a story as per Tax-News.com . Seemingly a 13 year project undertaken by HMRC to rewrite tax law (with the objective of makin...

HMRC published their Consultation Responses Document to its draft Charter last week. The consultation attracted an unprecedented 1900 respo...

The Guardian highlights the dangers of government departments, such as HMRC, using the data gathered via the ID card scheme to go on fishin...

FYI, from the HMRC site: Two consultation documents on modernising HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) powers, deterrents and safeguards are pub...

This piece in publicservice.co.uk states that HMRC is suffering from an increase in staff being off through sickness. However, apparently, ...

From the horse's mouth (HMRC) itself: " There are no special capital gains tax rules covering MPs' homes ." Does this mean...

My thanks to Thomas Casagranda for giving me permission to post a letter that he sent to the Mail on Sunday, re second home profits. I wonde...

There was a rather interesting take on the effectiveness and value of the "efficiency" savings being implemented by government org...