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- Millions owed tax refund, HMRC confirms
- Elmbridge residents pay billions in tax
- 'Deliberate defaulters' named and shamed by HMRC
- Glitch in HMRC's RTI software leads to PAYE woes
- IPPR author moots radical new tax regime
- Property sales tax campaign launched by HMRC
- HMRC's crackdown on tax evasion extends to tax havens
- HMRC deems Alternative Dispute Resolution service a success
- Record £220 million haul received from high-rate taxpayers
- Daily fines on the horizon for late tax return filings
- UK challenges European financial transaction tax
- Pensioners should pay more income tax, says Fabian society
- Scottish Labour highlights "strong case" for devolving income tax
- HMRC clarifies Scottish income tax changes
- HMRC waters down SME concessions
- Strikes at HMRC collide with beginning of tax year
- Financial transaction tax could harm economy
- 50 per cent tax rate is reduced to 45 per cent
- HMRC accused of poor customer service
- HMRC rebate rules could impact tax advisers
- Employee ownership option could offer tax break
- UK businesses set to miss out on Patent Box tax break
- Higher taxes after election could see wealth exodus
- Personal tax allowance threshold raised
- Working families could get tax-free childcare
- Taxes increasing, despite rising personal allowances
- Brits overpaying billions in tax
- Higher rate taxpayers urged to make use of pension relief
- Ray Winstone threatens to leave UK over high taxes
- Bedroom tax will greatly affect single parents, research finds
- HMRC's Connect system to use social media to track fraud
- HMRC uploads new series of tax advice videos to YouTube
- HMRC tweets tax advice for SMEs
- Tax credit message issued by HMRC
- HMRC warns taxpayers to be wary of phishing emails
- UK retailers hit with some of world's highest tax levels
- HMRC slammed for failing to hit fraud detection target
- HMRC sends out almost one million late payment penalties
- Labour proposes 10pc income tax to be funded by mansion tax
- Income tax rates stable in an autonomous Scotland, Swinney promises
- Clegg touts alternative mansion tax to fund income tax cuts
- France bemoans Beckham's income tax avoidance
- 265,000 to gain from 50pc tax rate U-turn
- Aon employees to avoid 50pc tax rate on bonuses
- Is Labour looking to reintroduce 50 per cent tax?
- Plymouth implements 50pc tax on second homes
- Telegraph gives advice on how to reduce tax bill
- 'Bedroom tax' mulled by MPs in Wales
- HMRC launches new VAT campaign
- Pension reforms lead to increased tax for Armed Forces
- HMRC's 'tax app' proves popular with taxpayers
- Decline in corporate tax rate paid by big UK firms
- HMRC delving into taxpayers' private lives
- Council tax bills could spiral due to loophole
- Tax crimes now account for half of all UK fraud
- Child benefit changes hit higher rate taxpayers
- Employers are being urged to act now to prepare for new PAYE changes
- Jean Michel Jarre could move to England over income tax
- Fears over chaos around Child Benefit tax situation
- Entrepreneurs worth £130,000 each to the UK economy
- Child Benefit decision time draws nearer for higher rate taxpayers
- HMRC launches new inner peace campaign
- Higher rate income tax threshold to be raised
- Changes to IR35 scheduled for today
- Government urged to do more to help small firms
- More middle class earners to pay 40 per cent tax
- Plans for RTI HMRC tax penalties revealed
- Boris Johnson calls for cut in top tax rate
- Call for tax break boost for small businesses
- Small firms could benefit from corporate tax dodging
- Philanthropists could get income tax cut
- New report highlights the tax contribution made by contractors and small businesses
- Higher rate taxpayers to be affected by Child Benefit changes
- Businesses back proposals to merge income tax and National Insurance
- Business urged to get records in order as checks campaign approaches
- Contracting attractive due to higher rates of pay
- High income tax blamed for ‘brain drain’
- BBC gives contractors staff roles after tax row
- HMRC re-launches Business Records Checks scheme
- Call for fewer middle-income earners to pay higher-rate tax
- HMRC Self Assessment paper tax return deadline has now passed
- Foreign aid cash could be used to fund income tax cut
- Small firms unaware of RTI implications
- HMRC SME compliance checks see revenue rise 39 per cent
- Income tax relief caps will hit business owners
- Online Self Assessment tax returns will be processed faster
- Direct sellers targeted in latest HMRC campaign
- Direct sellers targeted in latest HMRC campaign
- HMRC Business Records Checks scheme set to begin again
- Contractors urged to keep personal and business finances separate
- Government urged not to damage contracting sector with tax changes
- Businesses back a flat rate of UK tax
- Six months to go until Real Time Information begins
- Contractors being hit by late payments
- UK tax system becoming more competitive
- Concerns raised over IR35 contractor tax crackdown
- Deadline for HMRC’s late tax return campaign draws near
- Government considers tax-free jobs
- Over half of HMRC complaints upheld
- Danny Alexander calls for income tax threshold rise
- UK tax evasion falls
- HMRC launches new tax campaign
- Concerns over UK tax avoidance rules
- A third of small firms not prepared for HMRC PAYE changes
- UK competitiveness held back by tax rate
- Advertising boss criticises income tax cut
- Temporary income tax hike for the wealthy could see exodus
- Final call for returns from higher rate taxpayers
- Clegg calls for wealthiest to pay more tax
- Government accused of failing to simplify UK tax
- Usain Bolt slams UK tax laws
- Businesses warned to keep HMRC in the loop following steep fine
- Half a million tax return fines issued
- Self-employed workers reminded about registering with HMRC
- Workers paying less in income tax than before recession
- Small businesses warned over ‘disguised employees’
- Businesses back a flat rate of UK tax
- Billions in income tax credits going unclaimed
- PAYE tax returns could go online
- BBC urged to open up about tax
- Responsibility for tax code checking set to shift to taxpayers
- Treasury minister warns against cash-in-hand discounts
- Small firms urged not to miss out on Patent Box tax breaks
- HMRC announces partial tax amnesty for higher rate taxpayers
- Concern that tax relief cap could hurt entrepreneurs
- Call for working pensioners to pay National Insurance
- Small businesses 'fear HMRC'
- More employers set to join HMRC RTI pilot
- Reconsidering business structure could cut contractor tax
- Call for ongoing tax disclosure programme
- HMRC criticised over writing off taxes
- UK tax burden driving avoidance schemes
- Cameron promises to welcome French top-rate taxpayers
- Osborne urges businesses to back tax cut campaign
- Stamping out dodgers could lower UK income tax
- Pop stars launching companies in Ireland due to low corporation tax rates
- Brits missing out on income tax relief on pension contributions
- Gibraltar set to become tax-efficient retirement haven once again
- Number of tax tribunals rising
- New UK tax taskforces launched
- Tax Freedom Day falls later than last year
- Contractor tax test deemed ‘flawed’
- Flat 30 per cent income tax rate proposed
- Expats uncertain about tax situation
- UK tax regime criticised
- Is this the end of film investors' tax breaks?
- French taxes to put UK in favourable light?
- Optimum top tax is 48p
- Govt tax crackdown prompts finance restructuring
- Brits failing to save on tax
- Inflation means 50 per cent tax rate payers still struggling
- High taxes 'restricting recovery'
- Business group calls for competitive tax system
- Cap on charity tax relief causes problems
- Wealthiest Brits cut tax to 10 pc
- 50 per cent tax woes see French move to UK
- Chancellor 'shocked' at tax evasion rates
- Mayor calls for London to keep tax
- New tax year approaching
- 50 per cent tax change 'not surprising'
- Cost of living set to rise due to tax hikes
- Simon Cowell backs tax cut
- Chancellor cuts 50 per cent tax rate
- Pension tax relief changes 'will feel like a rate rise'
- George Osborne 'determined to cut 50p tax rate'
- Budget expected to damage confidence
- Balls calls for end to 50 per cent tax break on pension relief
- Mums call for change in tax attitudes
- Higher rate pension tax relief to be scrapped?
- 50 per cent tax payers save with an offset
- Businesses 'wasting tax payments'
- SMEs call for an end to 50 per cent tax
- Offshore fund to be hit with 50 per cent tax?
- 50 per cent taxpayers 'account for third of income tax'
- Labour calls for income tax cuts
- Inflation still hitting 50 per cent tax bracket
- Schemes (SEIS) will get up to 50 per cent tax relief.
- 50 per cent income tax likely to remain
- Bankers to see pay slashed
- P45 tax form to stay
- Problems recorded on tax deadline day
- Average households pay quarter of a million in tax
- 50 per cent tax rate here to stay, Mayor warns
- End of UK tax holiday approaching
- IR35 Forum considers new contractor proposals
- Cable joins Clegg on mansion tax debate
- Tax deadline approaching
- 50 per cent tax contributes to record year for HMRC
- Clegg vows to continue to push 'mansion tax'
- HMRC must clarify cost-saving and compliance effects
- High earners warned to claim full pension tax relief
- Plans to abolish 50pc tax rate reportedly scrapped
- Contractor both inside and outside IR35 at same workplace
- HMRC condemned over small business "persecution"
- HMRC to target Scottish restaurateurs for unpaid VAT
- Clegg speaks of dream of higher taxes for high-earners
- Top level businesses deliver significant proportion of UK tax income
- Football clubs next target for taxman
- Employment figures could help umbrella company contractors
- Under-fire HMRC executive to retire
- Robin Hood tax could be on the way
- Brussels could sue over UK tax agreement
- Small business investors to be given 50pc tax relief
- KPMG claims higher earners 'grudgingly' enduring 50pc tax
- Treasury could lose billions to 50 per cent tax rate
- Alexander speaks out in favour of the 50pc tax rate
- 1.4m more people to face 50 per cent tax rate
- HMRC cracking down on healthcare professionals
- PM's suggested abolition of 50pc tax ruled out
- HMRC warned not to make assumptions about second-home owners
- High earners opt for offshore bonds to mitigate pension taxes
- Tax could force Aardman Animations overseas
- Lib Dems now proposing tax on pension withdrawals
- HMRC looking to squeeze out tax from overseas homes
- Second home-owners to bear brunt of tax shake-up
- HMRC criticised for 'threatening' letters
- Swiss tax deal could work out as "revenue negative"
- Diageo chief says 50pc tax threatens their future in UK
- Expat millionaire tax ruling to affect high-earners
- HMRC criticised for incorrect penalties
- 50pc tax could jeopardise tennis show case, warns Nadal
- Tax regime pushing FTSE businesses abroad
- IoD's 15-point plan calls for less tax, more quantitative easing
- Labour 50pc tax cut proposal would remove all other relief
- HMRC to target small firms around the Olympics
- 50pc tax cut debate 'not until next year', says Osborne
- 50 per cent tax rate fourth highest in Europe
- Top earners must still plan for 50pc tax for the moment
- IFS claims 50pc tax could be losing Treasury revenues
- Tax deal to come down hard on high earners' Swiss accounts
- Pickles backs economists' 50pc tax scrap calls
- Willetts claims 50 per cent tax has 'symbolic importance'
- HMRC taking stricter line on unpaid tax from bankrupts
- Wealth tax on Italian high earners dropped
- 50 per cent tax footballers contribute £1bn to Treasury
- Tax deal to come down hard on high earners' Swiss accounts
- High earners increasingly relying on overdrafts
- Highest earners likely to pay much more than 50pc tax
- Rooney tax allegations upheld
- Clegg and Osborne at odds over 50 per cent tax abolition
- Cable wants 'sweetener' for 50 per cent tax cut
- Cable claims new levy would have to replace 50pc tax
- High earners to face pension rate rise burden too
- Alexander criticised over 50pc tax cut 'cuckoo land' comments
- 50 per cent tax behind rise in business incorporations
- High net-worth Brits on the rise
- FSA urged to reconsider RDR on high net-worth Brits
- HMRC placed under microscope by parliamentary committee
- Half of UK high-earners prepared to emigrate
- More mortgage approvals for UK's higher earners
- 'Most competitive' corporate tax rate plan destined to fail
- British high earners donating more of their money
- High earners not saving enough for retirement
- City AM editor calls for Britain's own Ronald Reagan
- High earners turn to estate planning to mitigate tax burden
- Consultation into tax agent enrolment proposals launched
- HMRC's new tax technology raises concerns
- UK in income tax top ten
- HMRC clamping down on inheritance tax
- Chancellor urged to cut taxes if necessary
- Peer demands banks pass on ISA tax relief
- Relaunched savings certificates see surge of applicants
- SIPPs can help relieve 50pc tax burden
- Offshore investment bonds could mitigate 50pc tax
- HMRC cracks down on VAT evasion
- More tax amendments imminent, says OTS chief
- Army reservist wins HMRC tax code battle
- Lichtenstein disclosure scheme not netting nearly enough
- London still 'strong' business location, says leading female financier
- Value of Britain's ultra-wealthy rises by 18 per cent
- UK-Swiss tax disclosure deal criticised
- Swiss property interest surges due to UK's 50pc tax
- HMRC criticised for early tax record trials
- 50pc taxpayers need strong savings interest to beat inflation
- HMRC denies profiting from refund delays
- Many high-earners not using an IFA
- CBI calls for end to 50pc tax rate
- City workers contributing as much tax as Scotland
- HMRC tax refunds delayed
- High-earners in Jersey get tax reprieve
- 50pc tax rate could be scrapped
- HMRC's RTI pilot scheme to begin next year
- Analyst claims merged income tax and NI not likely
- Households to be £200 worse off after Budget
- Mansion tax could replace 50p income tax
- Chancellor says 50 per cent tax rate is temporary
- Tax calculators can help with pension rule changes
- Income tax and NI merger proves controversial
- 50 per cent tax rate could cost us billions
- IoD calls for major tax cuts in budget
- Most workers not aware of personal tax allowance
- IR35 to stay put for now
- Charity says taxation of middle-class damages families
- HMRC launches crackdown on unpaid business taxes
- British people paying hundreds of pounds too much in tax
- Treasury fearful over non-dom crackdown
- Labour considering lowering 50 per cent tax threshold
- Contractor tax help tool launched by HMRC
- Tax income in January creates surplus for government
- Teachers and nurses added to higher rate taxpayer list
- Barclays boss says 50 per cent tax is damaging
- Labour forced to deny 50 per cent tax rule
- HMRC to charge higher penalties in black list jurisdictions
- Higher rate taxpayers head to Gibraltar
- Tax breaks for married couples attracts ministerial backing
- Tax changes will affect millions
- Number of tax returns filed online hits new heights
- IT system still causing chaos at HMRC
- HMRC self-assessment deadline is today
- Pensions at risk due to HMRC's NI errors
- Taxpayers need higher interest rates on savings to negate inflation
- Majority of VAT tax penalties are reversed by HMRC
- HMRC to crack down on SME paperwork
- HMRC VAT scheme could benefit the self-employed
- Small business owners 'disenchanted' with tax system
- Extra income tax still owed by 450,000 claims HMRC
- OTS to revive 'Dracula' tax on family firms
- Chancellor says there will be no hidden tax rises
- Christmas was a 'taxing' time for many workers
- Retailers warned to adapt to VAT rise
- Rules around filing of corporation tax changing, warns HMRC
- HMRC praised for fighting tax evasion
- Scotland calls for different rate of corporation tax
- Middle class 'squeezed' by HMRC, say accountants
- HMRC website at risk of pro-WikiLeaks attacks
- UK's 'plan B' includes emergency tax cuts
- HMRC issues tax avoidance scheme warning
- Small businesses split over how to deal with VAT rise
- Small businesses split over how to deal with VAT rise
- Graduate tax U-turn
- HMRC clamps down on childcare tax credit frauds
- Exceeding tax allowance could cost employees dear, warns expert
- PAYE real time information consultation continues
- HMRC warns firms about new penalties
- HMRC pushing firms to pay tax on credit cards
- Mercer warns of pension tax reform issue
- HMRC issues deadline warning for online tax returns
- Scotland refuses £7m IT upgrade request from HMRC
- Laws suggests tax cuts prior to next election
- Company tax returns to be submitted in new technology format, says HMRC
- Choose savings accounts to negate impact of inflation, says expert
- Top earner tax rate to be re-thought
- VAT overhaul needed, finds tax review
- World leaders urged to back financial transaction tax
- Tax hikes could cost 1.6 million jobs across UK
- Crackdown on companies owing tax to HMRC
- Workers facing tax demands dating back six years
- Northern Ireland corporation tax cuts called for
- Institute of Directors brands IR35 'ineffective'
- OTS recruits experts to review IR35
- UK banks to sign tax avoidance code
- Deadline approaching for paper Self Assessment tax returns
- UK banks to sign tax avoidance code
- Final-salary schemes feel the pain of tax rises
- High earners to be hit by pension tax cuts
- Labour makes tax promise
- UK has fourth highest tax rate in EU
- Cameron offers tax break for married couples
- Taxman to take chunk of bank bonuses
- Higher rate taxpayers to lose child benefits
- Miliband continues tax plans
- High earners tax changes divisive for employers
- Taxpayers warned over deadline
- Miliband supports tax rises
- High earners advised on tax savings
- HMRC may write off £1.5bn unpaid tax
- No plans to scrap 50pc tax rate
- Bankers should pay 80pc tax says Livingstone
- Brits not making most of CGT savings
- Taxpayers spared interest on repayments
- Tax boss could be called before MPs
- Many high earners unaffected by tax errors
- 50pc tax rate not being collected
- Darling calls for protection for tax victims
- Milibands disagree on 50 per cent tax rate
- HMRC issues system update warning
- Darling admits failure of banker tax
- NI tax holiday to begin this month
- No tax cuts for five years says government
- High taxes could drive Diageo overseas
- Tax proposals could hit average wage earners
- Tax regime driving businesses abroad
- Pension proposals could hit higher rate taxpayers
- Benefits may be cut for higher tax payers
- HMRC to ease stance on tax avoidance
- High earners hit by expensive bank accounts
- Clegg comments on further tax rises
- High earners could face further pension restrictions
- HMRC collects £238m too much tax
- Bogus tax websites closed down
- New tax laws could hit holiday homes
- High earners increasing charity donations
- Thousands affected by tax rebate delays
- Tax increase for final salary pensions
- Government proposes PAYE reform
- Firms urged to act on pension tax changes
- HMRC could owe taxpayers £3 billion
- Government urged to cut 50 per cent tax rate
- Jersey may hike income tax
- EFRBS could be hit in review
- Government criticised over CGT
- Firms struggling to meet TTP requirements
- PM defends CGT hike
- Tax changes not fully explained experts say
- Pensions review planned for high earners
- CGT increased to 28 per cent
- Contractors free to choose umbrella company or alternative solutions
- Demand for IT contractors falling
- Government spending plans could benefit contractors
- Care home residents could face mounting tax bills
- Property market could flounder if tax rates rise
- Queen's speech confirms middle-class tax fears
- Think tank warns against raising CGT
- Asset shifting advised before capital gains tax rise
- Osborne risks internal revolt over capital gains tax
- Capital gains tax rise could match income tax
- Investment expert fears flight of Russian billionaires
- Plan around the 50 per cent tax
- Lloyd Webber tears into 50 per cent tax plan
- Tax rise for Asda top earners delayed
- Firms bring forward dividend payouts to avoid 50 per cent tax
- Tax saving opportunity as top rate of income tax rises to 50 percent
- New higher rate tax payers will be created
- Tax saving options still available
- A different way to raise taxes
- 50 percent is not the highest tax in history
- London's £1 million earners - "the worst in the world"
- Another 50 percent tax.... to be applied on bank bonuses
- Interest-free loans to try and evade the 50percent tax?
- Tycoons on their way to Switzerland
- The 50 percent tax and other deductions in figures
- 50 percent tax on higher earnings says Chancellor Alistair Darling
