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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

  • Capital gains tax receipts increase £5bn in two years: Is its future aligned with income tax?

    Tax

    The amount of Capital Gains Tax collected by the government has shot up by more than £5bn in the past two years, according to official figures from HMRC. Rising from £9.8bn in 2019/20 to £14.9bn in 2021/22, the huge increase comes after changes to the tax and rising house prices. The increase in Capital Gains [...]

  • VAT revenues rise to highest amount ever as HMRC pockets £157bn in just one year

    Record VAT payments

    HMRC collected a record £157.2bn from VAT bills in in the last tax year, a 55 per cent jump on the £101bn collected in 2020/21, after businesses were forced to make up for VAT payments they deferred during the pandemic. Accountants have told City A.M. that HMRC’s VAT income has risen sharply after the rate [...]

  • UK pension holders in for a shock as thousands face unexpected tax charges due to exceeding lifetime allowance

    New HMRC data

    Thousands of pension savers potentially face tax charges as they have more than the lifetime allowance sitting in their personal pensions, figures indicate. Around 2,300 people have been paying into personal pension schemes exceeding the lifetime allowance of £1,073,100, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data. InvestingReviews.co.uk obtained the figures from HMRC following a [...]

  • HMRC receives record high £157bn from VAT bills after tax holiday ends

    May 6, 2022

    HMRC collected a record £157.2bn from VAT bills in 2021/22, a 55 per cent increase on the £101bn collected the year before.

  • Taxman waives fines for million Brits unwittingly caught in anti-money laundering crackdown

    April 29, 2022

    The UK taxman has said it is waiving fines for those who unwittingly faced penalties for failing to list any trusts they own on anti-money laundering registers. Her Majesty’s Revenues & Customs’ (HMRC’s) decision to waive the penalties comes in the midst of a major anti-money laundering crackdown, which saw the introduction of new rules [...]

  • Tax paid by Brits on at least £150k skyrockets as ‘fiscal drag’ makes HMRC increasingly lean on high income taxpayers

    April 20, 2022

    The total income tax paid by high earners making £150,000 or more has increased by 77 per cent in the last decade, reaching £60.9bn in the 2019-20 tax year, up from £34.5bn in 2010-11, according to data that was shared with City A.M. Over the same period the total tax take from basic rate taxpayers [...]

  • The City’s Purple Pay called out by HMRC for promoting tax avoidance

    April 7, 2022

    The City’s Purple Pay has been named and shamed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for promoting tax avoidance schemes. The taxman has revealed the names of companies which have promoted schemes to avoid paying tax for the first time today, warning users that they could face “large tax bills” unless they withdraw from them. [...]

  • Exclusive: HMRC to crack down on cabbies and taxi drivers with new tax checks before licence renewal

    April 4, 2022

    HMRC is launching a crackdown on taxi drivers, mini cab drivers and scrap metal merchants from April, with the introduction of new tax evasion checks, City A.M. has been told. The introduction of a number of new tax evasion checks will allow HMRC to further scrutinise workers in what it sees as ‘high risk’ sectors [...]

  • On HMRC’s radar: Number of ‘nudge’ letters for offshore income or gains shoots up to nearly 177,000

    March 28, 2022

    Information obtained from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) reveals that HMRC has to date issued nearly 177,000 so-called “nudge” letters in respect of offshore income or gains since they started the practice with less than a thousand in the 2016/17 tax year. This is thought to be the first time that HMRC has released public [...]

  • Pandemic leads to major spike in whistleblowers turning to SFO to report alleged fraud

    March 14, 2022

    The pandemic has led to a near 20 per cent rise in whistleblower reports about alleged fraud. Workers may have falsified accounts to cover up theft or inflated sales figures in a bid to achieve bonuses during the pandemic, a new report by consultancy firm Accuracy has found. There was a 17 per cent rise [...]

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