HMRC

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has secured almost all of the disputed tax due from the first group of tax avoidance scheme users to receive Accelerated Payment notices.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) and self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider Standard Life have worked out a deal with the taxman over the tax status of recoveries related to ARM Asset Backed Securities.

Financial advisers are among the small and medium size businesses being "aggressively" targeted by HMRC for VAT payments, contributing to a 10% jump in VAT taken from SMEs in the last year, according to a national accountancy group.

HMRC paid out a record £400,000 in 2013 to people whistleblowing on tax avoidance activities, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed.

The number of people being pursued through the courts for tax evasion has risen by almost a third in the last year, as HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) steps up its efforts to close the UK's £35bn tax gap.

Advisers should notify their insurers early if they think they may be facing claims from advice to invest in tax avoidance schemes, a professional indemnity insurance (PII) lawyer has warned.

Equilibrium plans AIM portfolio to reduce IHT costs

Investors who put money into failed life bond scheme Catalyst via their Standard Life self-invested personal pension (SIPP) have been told they have longer to wait before finding out if they are eligible for compensation.

Fiona Murphy examines The Pension Ombudsman's delays to decisions on pension liberation fraud and wider concerns about how liberation could shift.

The chief executive and a former director of the tax specialist arm of financial group Montpelier have been cleared of cheating the public revenue of £1m, after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) dropped the case against them.