HMRC

Glen Stewart offers a step-by-step guide to minimising inheritance tax

The government expects to collect an extra £3.1bn from those found to have avoided or evaded tax payments - and those professionals who help them - Chancellor George Osborne said in his Budget speech today.

The Chancellor George Osborne will announce in today's Budget he plans to scrap the annual tax return, replacing it with a single ‘digital' tax account.

HSBC is closing all accounts on Jersey belonging to customers living in the UK amid checks on their identity and addresses.

Lawyers are urging investors who have been advised to invest in disputed tax avoidance schemes to take their financial advisers to court for compensation.

The government is to force tax avoidance schemes to reveal they are being monitored by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as part of its wider clamp down on tax crime.

Draft legislation which clarifies the position on joint life annuities and guarantee payments, as well as tax treatment on deaths prior to age 75 has been released by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Pension administrators will be required to provide HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) was additional information before setting up new schemes as part the crackdown on pension liberation.

Retired Premier League players are among more than 100 footballers who face financial ruin as a result of demands from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for what it has said is unpaid tax, but the sports stars said the fault lies with their advisers.

HMRC's crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion by people who it calls "mass affluent" saw an income boost of 60% in the last year, a new report has claimed.