Southampton Football Club is today celebrating a victory before the football season has even kicked off, after winning a VAT tussle against HM Customs...
View articleThe owners of sexy television business Television X, have moved the soft-porn channel offshore to the Channel Islands, the UK tax haven. Read More...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown has offered a concession to smaller offshore operators in a bid to sweeten his shock 10% North Sea oil levy and split his oil ...
View articleControversial plans to end tax relief for all made-for-television films have been watered down following vigorous lobbying from UK production companie...
View articleUK universities and research institutes are among bodies likely to be hit by an EU ruling that found exempting academic bodies from VAT on commissione...
View articleReservoir Dog's Mr Blonde, US film star Michael Madsen, is hoping to finance his new London-based feature film through the UK Enterprise Investment Sc...
View articleThe OECD-sponsored Financial Action Task Force has removed four countries from its blacklist of territories not cooperating in the fight to end money ...
View articleReports coming out of the US tell us that Ernst & Young has been selling wealthy US citizens four legal techniques for reducing their income tax b...
View articleThe Treasury has rejected a series of attempts to ease the burden on North Sea offshore oil operators facing chancellor Gordon Brown's 10% corporation...
View articlePharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is facing a possible trial with the Internal Revenue Service in the US over claims abour unpaid tax. Read More...
View articleThe accountancy profession has called on the government to halt the 'fiction', and look into the viability of merging national insurance with income t...
View articleThe Chartered Institute of Taxation has today called for a reduction in the tax burdens on employers in a paper on employer/employee tax issues. Read ...
View articleCalls from the Bush administration for a clamp down on tax breaks for foreign companies operating in the US will strain relations with its trading par...
View articleA Government scheme to charge companies for digging up the roads could increase the cost of implementing leased line and other telecoms connections, a...
View articleThe Treasury has flatly rejected a plea from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to limit anti-avoidance measures that the acc...
View articleSir Iain Vallance has launched a scathing attack on prime minister Tony Blair, accusing him of damaging the relations between business and the governm...
View articlePaymaster general Dawn Primarolo has denied the Treasury is deliberately pursuing policies designed to encourage small businesses to become incorporat...
View articleThe Chartered Institute of Taxation says it is concerned by the lack of 'parliamentary scrutiny' the government has allowed for many of its 'significa...
View articleThe Professional Contractors Group, the dogged anti-IR35 campaigner, has 'cautiously welcomed' the Inland Revenue's amended guidance on status assessm...
View articleAttempts by the Inland Revenue to demand confidential tax avoidance advice were quashed in the House of Lords yesterday. Read More...
View articleProduction companies have blamed the BBC and ITV for the government's decision to remove film tax breaks, which has endangered the UK film industry an...
View articleProposals set out in the Finance Bill for a proposed £3,000 fine levied on employers that do not file their tax returns electronically by prescribed d...
View articleAmerican-based offshore oil companies fear chancellor Gordon Brown's 10% levy will result in a serious risk of double taxation because of the way the ...
View articleThe Inland Revenue says no final decision has been made on a proposed £3,000 fine levied on employers that do not file their tax returns electronicall...
View articleThe European Union Council of Ministers has slammed the door shut on entreaties from the American government to abandon its plans to exempt EU-based s...
View articleThe Professional Contractors Group, which has to date, failed in its bid to have the controversial IR35 legislation scrapped, says local IT contractor...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown's Community Investment Tax Credit will only apply to qualifying investments made through special intermediaries in enterprises...
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