The Treasury is to increase the inheritance tax (IHT) nil rate band by 1% in 2015/16, to £329,000.
Chancellor George Osborne has given HM Revenue and Customs extra powers to tackle advisers promoting aggressive tax avoidance schemes.
Up to two million people are to have their credit files secretly checked under a crackdown on tax evasion to be unveiled by George Osborne to help raise another £10 billion.
As Chancellor George Osborne prepares to deliver his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, we look at some of the main measures he may announce.
Business secretary Vince Cable is likely to succeed in pushing a mansion tax though parliament in the Autumn Statement, tax specialist Baker Tilly has said.
Owners who leave their properties in Cornwall empty for more than two years will have to pay 150% of their council tax bill, while discounts for second home owners have been scrapped.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is stepping up its investigations into taxes potentially underpaid by the directors and senior executives of the UK's largest companies, warns Pinsent Masons, the international law firm.