Tax Planning

A tax avoidance scheme sold by serial avoidance promoter NT Advisors has lost its third bid for legitimacy, saving the country £100m, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said.

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Ed Balls has dismissed claims that Labour's plan to reintroduce the 50p top rate of tax is part of an "anti-business agenda" and said the move would be temporary.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) should hold off on raising interest rates even though its stated threshold for doing so - a fall in the unemployment rate to 7% - is in sight, according to a report.

Advisers and pension scheme members have been warned not to "overreact" to the pension lifetime allowance cut, which is due to fall from £1.5m to £1.25m on 6 April.

The UK's headline rate of inflation fell to 2% in December, meeting the government-set target for the first time since November 2009, official figures show.

A crackdown on employers that set up offshore trusts for top earners has started to pay off, helping HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) more than double its takings from investigations into big companies' payroll tax avoidance last year.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has left interest rates unchanged again at 0.5%.

A film scheme marketed as a tax efficient way to invest in the movie industry and which had signed up former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has been defeated by the Upper Tax Tribunal.