The government's controversial energy tax has been slammed by one of the UK's foremost scientific body, which says it should be replaced by a carbon t...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has been critised for taking three years to fix a problem with its computer systems which caused it to overpay £82m of tax rebates....
View articleFresh from Monday's Armistice Day commemorations, British Legion clubs are among thousands of bodies who will find themselves in the zero-rate corpora...
View articleMarks & Spencer will take the Inland Revenue before Special Commissioners later this month in an attempt to reclaim £30m in corporation tax. Read ...
View articleWelsh political party Plaid Cymru is set to propose drastic cuts in corporation tax to address the region's poor economic performance, stimulate start...
View articleIf the Inland Revenue is to improve its online self-assessment service accountants must take a central role, according to technology partner EDS, one ...
View articleThe Treasury has dismissed claims from the Confederation of British Industry that the business tax burden has increased by £47bn under the Labour gove...
View articleReforms to betting tax have succeeded in bringing offshore internet and telephone bookies back to the UK, according to a consultative document issued ...
View articleClaims that the government is still considering abolishing higher rate tax relief on pension contributions have been firmly rejected by Treasury finan...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has announced a new measure to allow companies early corporation tax relief for money paid to a Share Incentive Plan (SIP). Read Mo...
View articleBusiness organisations have warned ministers that plans to tax capital gains in the same way as income would be too complex and could drain their cash...
View articleGordon Brown may need to find ways to help stimulate the economy, but cutting corporation tax is not the answer, according to finance directors. Read ...
View articleBusiness leaders have hit out at the 'flawed design' of the government's new energy tax, which they claimed hits the competitiveness of half UK's manu...
View articleThe government is to abolish stamp duty on business property purchases in the 2,000 most deprived wards in the UK. Chancellor Gordon Brown announced t...
View articleWe still don't know when Gordon Brown is going to deliver his pre-Budget report. Not knowing of course works the whole financial world up to a point o...
View articleThe chairman of the UK Film Council has called for a 'reality check' and a review of the industry's tax breaks to encourage distributors to take up mo...
View articleThe Inland Revenue knew for three years of a problem with its computer system which led to the £50m overpayment of tax rebates, but failed to act on t...
View articleThe government is coming under mounting pressure for a Commons debate on the effect on jobs of raising Corporation Tax on North Sea oil and gas to 40%...
View articleA government computer error could cost insurers up to £50m if they fail to tell investors that they have to give back a large part of their savings. R...
View articleThe government is to abolish Stamp Duty on business property purchases in the 2,000 most deprived wards in the UK. Read More...
View articleBusiness leaders have hit out the 'flawed design' of the government's new energy tax, which they claim has hit the competitiveness of half the UK's ma...
View articleThe creators of comic book character Judge Dredd are looking to attract investors to its recently launched film company by taking advantage of tax bre...
View articleLucent Technologies, the beleaguered telecoms equipment manufacturer, has benefited from an astonishing $1bn (£600m) tax rebate from the US government...
View articleA tense stand-off between charity finance directors and the Department of Trade & Industry has been relaxed after Customs & Excise made it clear that ...
View articleHomestyle, the UK furniture retailer, was left reeling yesterday after it learned that it may have to pay an extra £23m in sales taxes. Read More...
View articleTax collector insists special tax investigators have been moved to local units to tackle complex returns, not home in on the rich. Read More...
View articleThe Institute of Directors yesterday called on the government to drop plans to tax companies on unrealised gains. Read More...
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