Gus O'Donnell, the Treasury's head of macroeconomic policy and international finance, has been elevated to the position of new permanent secretary. Re...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has suspended its plans to allow taxpayers to communicate with the department by email, despite spending £200m on installing 55,000...
View articleAccounting software giant Sage has this week invited the Inland Revenue to engage in talks in a bid to increase the government's chances of successful...
View articlePaymaster general Dawn Primarolo will appear before a Treasury Select Committee sub-committee later this week to give evidence on the Inland Revenues ...
View articleAccountants will be able to check the validity of their clients' customers' VAT identification numbers via the internet through a new service launched...
View articleHM Customs and Excise has today announced a former PwC partner as its new director of tax practices - the first time the agency has made an external d...
View articlePaul Boateng has been appointed chief secretary to the Treasury, the only other cabinet post in this office alongside the chancellor, in the wake of S...
View articleCommon sense has prevailed in the House of Lords after it reversed a Court of Appeal ruling made in March 2001, which required taxpayers and their acc...
View articleThe Chartered Institute of Taxation has appointed a barrister and VAT expert as its new president to replace John Whiting. Read More...
View articleFifteen different tax systems within the European Union create many obstacles for SMEs within the internal market. So what is needed is a more harmoni...
View articleThe EU is not the only organisation to struggle with the reality that today's business world long ago stopped respecting national boundaries and the w...
View articleThe government is seeking ways of persuading more major IT companies to bid for public sector work following difficulties in ensuring a more fully com...
View articleThe UK government is considering a 9p tax on supermarket carrier bags in a bid to cut down on waste generated in the UK - a move which could raise £90...
View articleSkills developed by EDS in running the Inland Revenue's computer systems will be used to improve the IT systems of the US Marine Corps, which EDS took...
View articleThe Inland Revenue could spend as much as £20m to persuade suppliers to bid for its £4.5bn outsourcing contract. Read More...
View articleThe chief executive of the London Stock Exchange has attacked chancellor Gordon Brown for his failure to abolish stamp duty in last week's Budget Read...
View articleSo far, the take-up of online tax filing has fallen short of government targets. Sheena Sullivan asks what the Inland Revenue can do to boost figures....
View articleFor those in the money, offshore banking has long been the most popular way of stashing cash out of the taxman's sight. But not for much longer. Read ...
View articleErnst & Young and 'tunnel-visioned' Customs & Excise are at loggerheads over a decision by the European Court of Justice, which may cost the governmen...
View articleChancellor Gordon Brown's decision to impose a new 10% levy on North Sea oil profits has come under furious attack from opposition MPs, particularly S...
View articleThe chancellor has frozen duty on a variety of goods but increased tax on cigarettes. Read More...
View articleThe chancellor has halved the duty on beer for small pubs and breweries, lowering the cost by 14 pence on every pint. Read More...
View articleThe Tories have voiced 'grave reservations' about government plans to share confidential data in Inland Revenue and Customs' databanks with other gove...
View articleThe Inland Revenue has admitted it could cost up to £10m to encourage companies to bid for the £4bn IT contract to run the UK's tax systems. Read More...
View articleTS was thrilled to see Sir Nick Montagu, head of the Inland Revenue and Accountancy Age personality of the year, reliving his student years on BBC 2's...
View articleZoos across the UK are expected to hear on Thursday whether they'll be able to claim back as much as £30m in VAT when the European Court of Justice is...
View articleTreasury ministers have come under attack for failing to speed up the use of VAT data to replace monthly demands for information on turnover for gover...
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