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  • Do your Self Assessment online, don’t miss the deadline

    Do your Self Assessment online, don’t miss the deadline

    Twenty years since HMRC took its first step into the digital age with the birth of electronic Self Assessment (SA), HMRC is reminding customers to complete their online tax return ahead of the 31 January deadline.

  • Billion pound win for UK taxpayers

    Billion pound win for UK taxpayers

    The Supreme Court today ruled against users of a failed tax avoidance film partnership scheme which tried to use legitimate investment in the film industry as a hook for tax avoidance.

  • HMRC launch Junior Tax Facts at USW

    Tax Facts training for Welsh teachers launched

    For the first time, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has joined with a university to enable trainee teachers to deliver a programme on the facts of tax to local school children.

  • Taking a tax avoidance Liberty

    Taking a tax avoidance Liberty

    HM Revenue and Customs has defeated a tax avoidance scheme used by the wealthy to reduce their tax bills, which the department expects to protect £325 million in unpaid tax.

  • Getting to the root of tax avoidance

    Getting to the root of tax avoidance

    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has won a landmark case against a tax avoidance scheme promoter that could lead to the recovery of £110 million.

  • Stop facilitating tax evasion or face criminal prosecution, HMRC tells corporations

    Stop facilitating tax evasion or face criminal prosecution, HMRC tells corporations

    Corporations could be prosecuted if they fail to prevent staff from criminally facilitating tax evasion under a new HMRC law that comes into effect this weekend.


    It is already a crime to evade tax, or deliberately help another person to do so, but on behalf of the majority of taxpayers who pay what is due, the UK government is now taking an even firmer stance on corporate fraud in a mo

  • HMRC opens new Croydon regional centre

    HMRC opens new Croydon regional centre

    HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) first regional centre in Croydon is officially open, the Executive Chair announced today, at the department’s annual stakeholder conference in London.

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