In his opening speech at the Hardman Memorial Lecture earlier this month, Ian Hayes, chairman of the ICAEW faculty of tax described Richard Broadbent ...
View articleAn independent judicial inquiry has been launched into Customs' disclosure, investigation techniques and case management after the collapse of a major...
View articleCombating tax evasion could be done through the introduction of a new accreditation program for tax advisers, the head of Customs & Excise has sai...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has been critised for taking three years to fix a problem with its computer systems which caused it to overpay £82m of tax rebates....
View articleMarks & Spencer will take the Inland Revenue before Special Commissioners later this month in an attempt to reclaim £30m in corporation tax. Read ...
View articleWe still don't know when Gordon Brown is going to deliver his pre-Budget report. Not knowing of course works the whole financial world up to a point o...
View articleThe Inland Revenue knew for three years of a problem with its computer system which led to the £50m overpayment of tax rebates, but failed to act on t...
View articleA government computer error could cost insurers up to £50m if they fail to tell investors that they have to give back a large part of their savings. R...
View articleAn economics working group, preparing the way for a future EU constitution, has concluded that the European Union should have greater tax harmonisatio...
View articleThe National Audit Office, the government spending watchdog, has yet to decide if it will push ahead with an investigation of a multi-million pound pr...
View articleBig business is not getting an easy ride from the taxman, the Inland Revenue has said after public criticism that the department has developed 'a cosy...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has admitted selling its estate of more than 600 buildings to a company based in a tax haven, then wrongly announcing the buyer as ...
View articleThe Inland Revenue chairman has hit back at critics of its £4bn outsourcing IT competition. Read More...
View articleSo the Inland Revenue has taken yet another pasting over its online services, the latest in a long line. Read More...
View articleIreland's Revenue commissioners are to open talks shortly with their Isle of Man counterparts on the first double tax agreement between the two island...
View articleEuropean Commission proposals to halve diesel duties may be opposed by the Treasury in defence of its powers over UK taxation. Read More...
View articleCustoms is stepping up enforcement action against organised gangs that evade paying VAT on tobacco and alcohol with 340 staff assigned to the investig...
View articlePressure is being placed on Customs and Excise to make a policy statement on the treatment of VAT repayments following its defeat by Marks & Spenc...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has admitted that the security flaw which led to its online tax-filing site exposing users' confidential details could affect other...
View articleThe European Court of Justice has ruled in Marks & Spencer's favour in its long-running dispute with Customs over VAT repayments, paving the way f...
View articleThe Inland Revenue is to clean up its databases after the paymaster general admitted that poor quality data is causing problems Read More...
View articleFujitsu Siemens has won a joint contract with Dell to supply the Inland Revenue with 30,000 PCs a year. Read More...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has had to pay an accountant's costs after bungling his notification of a simple change of address. Read More...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has admitted the security flaw that led to users of its online tax-filing site having confidential details exposed could also affec...
View articleFresh doubts were raised this week over the government's ambitious online targets, as local authorities were told they could save almost £100m a year ...
View articleOnline tax publisher LexisNexis Butterworths Tolley has won a contract with HM Customs & Excise to provide 3,000 tax personnel with online tax gui...
View articleAs the row over government plans to extend the right for official agencies to monitor e-mail and mobile telephone records rages on, the existing right...
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