HMRC

UK residents with Swiss bank accounts are being warned that new landmark taxation arrangements are scheduled to come into force on 1 January next year.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has set up a website to help people pay the correct amount in tax as part of its targeted campaign to stop criminal avoidance.

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is this week to begin issuing about one million notifications to households about forthcoming changes to child benefit payments.

A second tax adviser working for the Vantis Tax group was today jailed for four years for his part in a £70m tax fraud.

Almost a third of the UK 'tax gap' - the difference between what is owed to Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and what is collected - is due to tax avoidance or evasion, according to the latest estimates.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is to publish further guidance on whether discretionary fund managers should be eligible for VAT payments.

The Personal Finance Society's paper on VAT and Adviser Charging contains a "significant error" and must be "urgently revised", warns a pension expert.

Celebrities including Weakest Link presenter Anne Robinson and members of Take That have been exposed as participants in a £1.2bn tax avoidance scheme, according to reports.

Former HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) head Dave Hartnett was presented with a "lifetime achievement award to corporate tax planning" by protestors who crashed an after-dinner speech.

The government is on course to raise £4bn from tax dodgers through a series of schemes cracking down on avoidance, Danny Alexander is set to tell the Liberal Democrat conference.