Newcastle United football club has lost a challenge in the High Court over the legality of HMRC’s seizure of documents as part of raids of club premis...
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View articleThe European Commission has ruled that Amazon must pay €250m in back taxes to Luxembourg, in the Commission’s latest efforts to crack down on tax avoi...
View articleThe EU is deeply divided over how to increase the tax take from tech giants such as Google, Apple and Amazon, who have recently come under fire for be...
View articleTo avoid falling foul of HMRC's tax crackdown, small businesses now have to be much more vigilant when it comes to tax matters, and it's an ideal oppo...
View articleKPMG’s South African branch has come under fire after becoming caught up in a growing corruption scandal surrounding one of the country’s most influen...
View articleLaw firm warns that HMRC focus on entrepreneur’s relief could prompt increase in avoidance scheme usage Read More...
View articleDiverted profits tax revenue collected by HMRC in 2016-17 totalled £281m, leaping from £31m collected in the previous year, according to data released...
View articleHMRC is probing at least two Manchester United players over potential image rights tax dodging that allegedly occured over the 2014-2015 season Read M...
View articleThe research looked at Labour’s 2017 election manifesto proposals to raise the upper tax rates and found it would not necessarily generate more tax re...
View articleHMRC lost only three out of 26 tax avoidance cases taken to court last year and had one mixed result, positioning them as a formidable force Read More...
View articleRetail giant Amazon halved its corporation tax bill in the UK to £7.4m in 2016, despite Amazon UK Services’ 54% increased turnover Read More...
View articleThe GAAR advisory panel stated that the use of gold as payments for employees is “abnormal and contrived” and “not a reasonable course of action” Read...
View articleAlison Conley, partner at MHA MacIntyre Hudson, looks at hybrid mismatch anti-avoidance legislation, and why accountants should pay attention to it Re...
View articleWhile supportive of suggestions to afford gig economy workers more rights and protections, industry reaction suggests more tax reform is needed for me...
View articleHMRC received a record number of 90 judicial reviews last year, raising concerns about the tax authority's potential misuse of power Read More...
View articleBillions of pounds of infrastructure investment planned; but tax tinkering still looms following Philip Hammond's first Autumn Statement Read More...
View articleAs advisers prepare for another Autumn Statement, they and their clients hope to avoid the grip of more red tape Read More...
View articleAlleviating tax red tape, and stronger investment incentives, are key requests for the chancellor Philip Hammond to consider from the ACCA Read More...
View articleMaking Tax Digital; CIMA's president taking up the chair role of its jointly-founded new international organisation; and new tax adviser conduct rules...
View articleThe 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 ...
View articleHMRC has won its tenth successive case against tax avoidance schemes promoted by NT Advisors. The Court of Appeal has ruled that NT Advisors’ latest s...
View articleLord Howard Leigh of Hurley discusses the government’s initiatives to mitigate tax avoidance and evasion Read More...
View articleHMRC is now targeting over 1000 different types of tax planning schemes for the issuing of Accelerated Payment Notices (APN’s). HMRC has recently adde...
View articleThe European Commission is to draw up a first common EU list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions based on a scoreboard Read More...
View articleEU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has defended the decision to order technology giant Apple to pay €13bn (£11bn) in back taxes to the Iri...
View articleA group of investors in film schemes HMRC has determined as tax avoidance are suing Ingenious Media, the company that offered the schemes, and leading...
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