Issue : Vol 189, Issue 4845

With power comes great responsibilityMoney laundering to fund international terrorism is an outrage and it is entirely right that HMRC should be given powers to prevent it. But with power comes...

Face? Bovvered?

The great unscramble

Competing interests

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Building project

Compensation payments

Discretionary trust

Capital gain

Estate planning Are dispositions for family maintenance transfers of value? At a recent course I was interested to hear the speaker talk about the use of IHTA 1984, s 11 as part of estate planning....

Employment allowanceSome 1,153,000 employers claimed the employment allowance in 2021-22, according to HMRC statistics. This is an increase of 6% from the previous year. 85% of companies claiming the...

HMRC is enhancing compliance checks on research and development (R&D) tax credit claims to prevent abuse of the relief. As a result, HMRC’s standard processing times will increase. The...

Long-standing concerns about HMRC’s performance standards are the subject of a joint letter from the ATT, CIOT, ICAEW and to Myrtle Lloyd, HMRC director general customer services. The...

HMRC is planning to bring in more taxpayers to the making tax digital for income tax self assessment (MTD ITSA) from 1 July 2022.In a letter to tax agents, HMRC said: ‘We want to ensure [MTD...