This sentence appears in HMRC’s “ Single departmental plan” for 2015‑20 : “ We will raise an additional £5bn a year by 2019‑20 by tackl...

As a result of a judicial review, lodged by law firm RPC, HMRC has withdrawn hundreds of accelerated payment notices (APNs). APNs have no...

Despite warnings, the government will go ahead with plans to consult on legislation that will create a new criminal offence for corpora...

The FT reports that the UK is preparing to triple the number of prosecutions of “serious and complex” tax evaders using a "tsunami...

Wednesday's Budget announcement by Osborne failed to mention that HMRC will be given powers to raid bank accounts and ISAs of people ...

HMRC was ordered by the Chancellor to review its powers of entry, and published a report on 27 November . HMRC has 39 powers, nine of ...

The Treasury Select Committee has warned that it continues to have "considerable concern" about proposals for HMRC to be allow...

Paul Aplin, tax partner with A C Mole & Sons and Chairman of the ICAEW Tax Faculty Technical Committee, has written a blog on economi...

Unsurprisingly the Budget announcement that HMRC will be granted new powers to take taxes owed from people's bank accounts, when m...

As the power of HMRC grows, and the political pressure to bring in more tax revenue increases, so does HMRC's temptation to spy on t...

As per today's Telegraph : " Judge Lewison was astonished when one HMRC employee admitted that he had no evidence that Abbey ...

Accountancy Age reports a rather interesting story about HMRC arresting a tax advisor on the day he was due to give evidence in a capital ...

Anthony Thomas will takeover as President of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) at today's AGM. His inaugural speech will highli...

My thanks to Accountancy Age for placing me (at 42) on their Financial Power List for 2011. I also appeared in the list in 2006. The list i...

The row over HMRC's new powers wrt withdrawing tax relief from any charity , if it feels that any of its senior employees or trustees is...

The formation of a coalition government, one party of which is wedded to the idea of a moral crusade against tax avoidance, coupled with the...

It seems that our "respected" MPs have foisted another piece of bureaucratic tax legislation upon us that will do nothing to lesse...

Business IFC reports that Dave Hartnett has aspirations for powers for national tax authorities to access data directly on their taxpayers...

HMRC is asking for more powers to force accountants to reveal the names and addresses of clients who use schemes to avoid paying the 50% rat...

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