National Insurance

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be given new powers in the spring to tackle employers who try to dodge paying their PAYE or National Insurance contributions (NICs).

As the government considers a catch-all rule for tax abuse, the experts give us the lowdown...

The government is set to create working groups to begin reforming the income tax and national insurance contribution (NIC) systems.

Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is considering setting up online accounts for individual PAYE taxpayers and introducing annual tax statements as part of efforts to make the UK tax system easier to understand.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has demanded five immediate actions to avert further financial turmoil.

James Hay Partnership's Neil MacGillivray explains how a client can get more for less.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has proposed extending VAT to nearly all spending - including financial services - following its wide-ranging review into the UK's tax system.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has revealed more than six million people continued to pay National Insurance contributions (NICs) in 2008-09 despite having already qualified for a full state pension.

Boris Johnson has called on the Chancellor to cut National Insurance (NI) and scrap the 50p higher income tax rate.

The Government today issued a call for evidence as part of considerations to simplify the way it deals with income tax and National Insurance contributions (NICs).