HMRC have issued new guidance on the taxation of Bitcoins today. The essence of this guidance is that trading in bit coins is now not
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PCS briefing on the close of HMRC Enquiry Centres
There is a debate in Westminster today on the closure of HMRC’s Enquiry Centres, all of which are due to close in the next three
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HMRC raises objections to country-by-country reporting that is designed to stop tax abuse
Last year David Cameron supposedly spearheaded international demands for country-by-country reporting. In 2014 the UK has forgotten that commitment. In the latest edition of Tax Analysts
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HMRC announce the closure of all Enquiry Centres in June 2014 and the loss of 8,000 jobs over the next year
HMRC announced to its staff this lunchtime that it is closing 281 Face to Face Enquiry Centres by June this year. As PCS, the union
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When HMRC’s most senior staff strike for the first time the time for change has arrived
As Accountancy Age have reported: An HM Revenue & Customs strike involving members of the Association of Revenue and Customs union is to take place
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Why doesn’t HMRC think our opinions count?
I was sent a report by HMRC yesterday on what it called its ‘Stakeholder Research’. You can find this here. This is how the short
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If you want a tax refund you can have one
This Friday is tax return final submission day so let me share a fact about tax returns that few people seem to know. Every single
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HMRC evidence on the state of the economy
HMRC have just published data on tax receipts for 2013. Playing with their spreadsheet for just a few minutes I came up with the following
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Tax evasion in the Cayman Islands? Surely not…
This headline in Accountancy Age made me smile for a number of reasons: Why? First of all because HMRC are doing something about tax evasion.
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