Autumn Statement: Investment and tax avoidance highlighted in Hammond’s speech
Billions of pounds of infrastructure investment planned; but tax tinkering still looms following Philip Hammond's first Autumn Statement
Tax Avoidance
Colin: Tell them about the money, mummy
As advisers prepare for another Autumn Statement, they and their clients hope to avoid the grip of more red tape
Five key tax and business burdens the chancellor must ease in Autumn Statement
Alleviating tax red tape, and stronger investment incentives, are key requests for the chancellor Philip Hammond to consider from the ACCA
Friday Afternoon Live: Making Tax Digital; CIMA prez’s new role; tax conduct guidance
Making Tax Digital; CIMA's president taking up the chair role of its jointly-founded new international organisation; and new tax adviser conduct rules ... top topics for the latest Friday Afternoon Live
European Commission told to draft financial transaction tax by year-end
The EC has been instructed to draft a European Union (EU) directive authorising an EU financial transaction tax, which would apply to ten of the EU’s 28 member states
HMRC records £143m Court of Appeal win against NT Advisors
HMRC has won its tenth successive case against tax avoidance schemes promoted by NT Advisors. The Court of Appeal has ruled that NT ... read more
Economic activity carried out in the UK must be taxed accordingly
Lord Howard Leigh of Hurley discusses the government’s initiatives to mitigate tax avoidance and evasion
HMRC widens APN applications
HMRC is now targeting over 1000 different types of tax planning schemes for the issuing of Accelerated Payment Notices (APN’s). HMRC has recently ... read more
European Commission to draw up list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions
The European Commission is to draw up a first common EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions based on a scoreboard
EU competition head Vestager defends Apple tax ruling
EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has defended the decision to order technology giant Apple to pay €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes to the Irish government
