HMRC scores victory over notorious advisory firm
HM Revenue & Customs has scored its fifth victory against an advisory firm after defeating another of its schemes at a tax tribunal.
HM Revenue & Customs has scored its fifth victory against an advisory firm after defeating another of its schemes at a tax tribunal.
Gary Barlow and fellow Take That stars, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, along with around 1,000 other wealthy investors, are facing hefty tax bills after a tribunal ruled on Friday they were invested in illegal tax avoidance schemes.
The commons treasury committee has expressed considerable concern at proposals to grant HM Revenue & Customs the power to take money directly from the bank accounts of tax avoiders.
A tax avoidance scheme used by Greene King, among others, designed to make taxable interest payments disappear, has been blocked for the second time by a tax tribunal.
Tax paid by so-called non-doms to the UK Treasury hit a record high of £6.8bn last year, according to data obtained by international law firm Pinsent Mason.
An exotic dance club that pursued legal action over the taxation of its services has had its case dismissed.
Over 80% of the public are against plans by HM Revenue & Customs to sell the personal financial data of millions of taxpayers to private firms, a survey by Baker Tilly has found.
There have been a number of significant announcements in the UK tax arena over the past few weeks. Here, George Bull, partner at Baker Tilly, takes stock of these changes.
Plans to remove a requirement to prove individuals with offshore accounts intended to evade tax are arguably a “blow to the rule of law in tax”, according to a partner at Baker Tilly.
The UK Government today published details of its latest plans to ramp up pressure on tax evaders who hide money offshore, which include making it easier to prosecute them, with a prison sentence possible for those found guilty, even if, it is being suggested, they did not intend to evade taxes.
The revenue the UK Government will see in its coffers as a result of the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility amnesty scheme "is likely to fall significantly short of its £3bn target", a UK law firm has predicted.
Advisers whose clients are among the 65,000 individuals and businesses said to be under investigation for having used UK tax avoidance schemes, are being told that they should begin urging these clients to line up the cash necessary to pay the disputed amount by early autumn.