All news on the topic: HMRC

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UK plans sweeping HMRC powers to force taxpayers to correct errors or face harsher penalties
Draft legislation published by HMRC last week introduces an explicit obligation on taxpayers to take ’reasonable action’ to correct errors once they are identified.
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HMRC to recover Winter Fuel Payments through tax code changes for thousands of pensioners
State pensioners with an annual income of more than £35,000 will be charged £33 extra per month in tax, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has confirmed.
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Angela Rayner pocketed £180,000 from second jobs during her year out of Cabinet
Angela Rayner earned more than £180,000 during her “year off” from Cabinet, The Telegraph can reveal.
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Tax rebellion of the super-rich: why British millionaires are massively preparing to flee the UK over Andy Burnham’s plans
Dozens of the UK’s richest people are already preparing to leave the UK amid fears that Andy Burnham could introduce widespread changes to the tax system, LBC has been warned.
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Millions of UK crypto holders urged to review tax records before HMRC reporting crackdown
Anyone who has ever owned cryptocurrency is being urged to review their tax records ahead of new reporting rules coming into force next year.
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Former Ernst & Young tax chief faces losing £730,000 home after £600,000 court defeat
A multimillionaire tax accountant - who signed everything he had over to his wife to dodge paying debts - could now lose his "chocolate box" country home after a £600,000-plus defeat in court.
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Reform UK accepted nearly £500,000 from companies facing collapse or financial distress
Anti-corruption campaigners question why firms are choosing to donate tens of thousands of pounds they apparently don’t have to Nigel Farage’s party.
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Reform councillor who attacked Labour on tax ran firms owing taxpayers nearly £300,000
A Byline Times investigation claims Reform UK councillor David Bowker, who has criticised Labour over tax, previously ran several companies that collapsed owing taxpayers nearly £300,000, with the total potentially rising to about £336,000 if a £50,000 RBS debt was a Government-backed Covid Bounce Back Loan.
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Rural landlords targeted in Labour’s ‘nice pub tax’ business rates overhaul
Rural landlords are to be impacted by a “nice pub tax” under new government guidelines.
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UK wine firm goes bust after selling bottles "off the books"
A UK wine company has gone into liquidation after a tax tribunal was held because the business was selling bottles ‘off the books’.
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Angela Rayner faces fresh pressure over tax affairs as seaside holiday photos spark backlash
The former Deputy PM took to the beach yesterday on the hottest May Bank Holiday on record.
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Angela Rayner re-emerges as Labour leadership contender after HMRC clears her tax affairs
Angela Rayner seems in the running for the Labour leadership race after saying she been cleared by HMRC of wrongdoing over her tax affairs. We take a closer look at the woman behind the politics.
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Jake Hall was facing £1.5m debts before fatal glass door tragedy in Majorca
Towie star Jake Hall was battling crippling debts of nearly £1.5 million before his tragic death in Majorca last week.
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Starmer defiant as Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham eye future leadership bids
These are desperate times for Sir Keir Starmer’s government, which faces annihilation in Thursday’s elections.
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Bank of London parent Oplyse Holdings posts £46.9m loss as Mandelson-linked fintech scandal deepens
The parent company of The Bank of London has reported another significant loss in recently delayed accounts for the second year in a row.
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Rayner faces years in the political wilderness as tax probe threatens comeback bid
Angela Rayner could be sidelined politically for years while officials investigate her tax affairs.
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Thousands of homeowners face mansion tax shock as automated valuations risk overpricing homes by £30,000
A version of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA)’s “automated valuation model" will be used in the assessment.
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Bradford tax officer jailed for three years for £211,000 fraud and money laundering
A tax officer based in Bradford who scammed the system to pocket more than £211,000 has been jailed for three years for fraud and money laundering.
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Shona Robison attacks ‘chaotic’ UK budget as Chancellor reportedly drops tax rises
The UK’s Budget process has "descended into complete chaos," Scotland’s Finance Secretary said as she pushed for a meeting with the Chancellor.
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Watch shop employee took his life after owners accused him of failing to resist £1.1m heist
A watch salesman who took his own life after being tied up in a £1.1 million heist had been working in a shop that was a ’front for organized crime’, a court has been told.
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Rachel Reeves sparks market chaos after latest U-turn on income tax plans
Rachel Reeves has lost control. For two weeks, she dropped heavy hints that she’d hike income tax in her upcoming Budget, softening up the public for a breach of Labour’s biggest manifesto promise.
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HMRC to reassess the suspension of child benefit payments for 23,500 individuals
HMRC is re-evaluating decisions to remove child benefit payments from 23,500 individuals after using their travel data to determine they had left the UK.
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UK mother loses child benefit after government wrongly claims she emigrated
A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or traveled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government.
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Hundreds of Northern Ireland families lose child benefits after returning via Dublin airport
Parents in Northern Ireland have had their child support payments stopped as part of the UK government’s crackdown on alleged benefit fraud simply because they returned from a holiday via Dublin Airport.
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Police seize £38,000 worth of illegal cigarettes and vapes in Warrington raids
Officers from the Constabulary’s Foreign National Offender (FNO) Unit and Protecting Vulnerable People Exploitation Teams (PVPE) joined immigration, HMRC, and Trading Standards colleagues in targeting stores across Warrington linked to immigration crime and the sale of illegal tobacco, vapes, and cigarettes.