HMRC

Adviser firms are being warned to beware HMRC intervention as they explore ways to avoid charging clients VAT after 2012.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) officers have arrested 15 people as part of an investigation into suspected money laundering offences in excess of £200m.

David Cameron's communications director Craig Oliver, and his BBC presenter wife Joanna Gosling, have become embroiled in a tax fraud investigation.

Blevins Franks is warning expatriates that the current UK rules for determining whether or not an individual is tax resident in the UK remain complex and unclear.

The courts have granted leave for a taxpayer to appeal a decision which could have ramifications for investigations into past tax returns.

With proposed new measures relating to non-UK domiciled individuals (non-doms) due for release by HMRC on 14 June 2011, accountancy firm KPMG is urging non-doms to give thought to their UK investment strategies sooner rather than later.

Scottish Widows will appear in the Supreme Court on 16 May over a tax refund dispute with HMRC.

A fraudster who used 15 different identities has been jailed for seven years for illegally reclaiming £118,000 in VAT and committing forgery.

The government has bent HMRC rules to allow investors in Lifemark and Hometrak-backed Keydata products to put an amount equal to their original investments back into an ISA and regain their tax exemptions.

HMRC has offered employers who use employee benefit trusts (EBTs) the chance to settle upcoming tax liabilities with no further questions before the trusts become illegal.