NEWS

The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS has released the Consolidated Commentary to the Pillar Two Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Model Rules which replaces the original Commentary from March 2022. This now incorporates the three Agreed...

The International Tax Compliance (Amendment) Regulations, SI 2024/544, update the principal regulations on the exchange of financial account information (the International Tax Compliance Regulations, SI 2015/878), so that those regulations apply to...

The Committee of the whole House is scheduled to consider selected clauses of the Spring Finance Bill on income tax and CT rates and the energy profits levy security investment mechanism on 8 May, with the remaining clauses to be considered by a...

HMRC have published a summary of its accounting officer’s assessment of the Making Tax Digital programme, finding that MTD represents value for money and is deliverable. The accounting officer was Jim Harra, Chief Executive of HMRC.The report sets...

HMRC have recently updated their guidance note on penalties that apply during the voluntary sign-up phase for MTD for Income Tax Self-Assessment. The change (in the ‘summary of impacts’ section) adds the following note: ‘Where a ‘Time To Pay’...

HMRC have updated its basic guidance on agent authorisations to confirm that an authorisation can now be removed online via the personal tax account. The guidance also notes that, where an agent is being removed for self-assessment, the corresponding...

HMRC’s pension schemes newsletter 159 (April 2024) provides various updates, including the following:Public service pensions remedy: Pension Scheme newsletter 156 has been updated to confirm that, where interest is paid as required by an employment...

This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors.  

HMRC is running a series of external engagement events across May 2024 to hear views on the non-dom policy changes that were announced at Spring Budget 2024. Anyone who wants to attend any of the sessions is asked to register their interest by 3 May...

At Tax Administration and Maintenance Day on 18 April 2024, the UK government set out the following four policy announcements (introduced in an accompanying written statement by Nigel Hiddleston, Financial Secretary to the Treasury).Consultation on...