HMRC has paid more than £1m to informants in the last three financial years.
David Gauke’s comments last week highlighted the fact that ‘not all tax losses are down to contrived avoidance schemes used by the wealthy’
People engaging in tax avoidance schemes that might be considered abusive will be challenged by the tax authorities, will receive little sympathy in court and may be vulnerable to widespread adverse publicity, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners warned as it unveiled a five-point ‘progr
Finance Act 2012 is now available on the National Archives website. It has 229 sections and 39 schedules, and the PDF version has 703 pages.
HMRC has published an ‘e-learning course’ for farmers, developed in conjunction with ‘farming bodies such as the NFU’.
Nyree Craig explains why the UK's basic principle of non-cooperation is now a thing of the past.
Barclays’ tax procedures were ‘robust and sound’, and the bank fully understood the potential damage to its reputation arising from the use of complex structures, Barclays chairman Marcus Agius told the chairman of the Financial Services Authority weeks after the government announced retrospectiv
Macfarlanes announced the appointment of Martin Zetter to a newly created role of Head of Transfer Pricing and Senior Economist in its Tax and Structuring Group. He joins the firm from Ernst & Young, where he was a Director in the financial services transfer pricing group.