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Tax

  • Zahawi, Patel and Rees-Mogg lead calls to abolish ‘morally wrong’ inheritance tax

    Death tax

    Senior Tory MPs including former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi are calling for inheritance tax to be abolished. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt face a call from more than 50 of his MPs to scrap the tax, according to The Telegraph. Writing in the newspaper, Mr Zahawi suggested scrapping the tax and said it [...]

  • Europe capitalising on UK’s ‘tourism tax’ as retailers call for overhaul

    Retail

    International tourists are spending more in Europe than in the UK as Britain’s retail sector continues to be hamstrung by the government’s decision to scrap VAT-free shopping, members of the House of Lords warned yesterday.

  • Jeremy Hunt: UK not ‘in a position’ to know if it can cut taxes before election

    uk economy

    The government is currently not “in a position to know whether we’re going to have any headroom at all” to cut taxes in the run up to the next election, Jeremy Hunt claimed today. Speaking at the British Chambers of Commerce’s (BCC) annual conference, the Chancellor said he and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “have our [...]

  • More than 6m extra Brits to be caught by higher income tax rate net in just a few years 

    May 16, 2023

    More than an additional 6m Brits are poised to be caught in the higher income tax net compared to the early 1990s in what has been characterised as the steepest tax hike in four decades, new research out today reveals. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision as Boris Johnson’s Chancellor to freeze tax bands for several [...]

  • HMRC tax-dodging prosecutions drop – and it has no plans to change that

    May 3, 2023

    HMRC is prosecuting far fewer people for tax dodging than before the pandemic, an influential committee of MPs has warned. Over the two pandemic years, the tax authority completed around 1,000 fewer prosecutions for tax-related offences than before the pandemic, a report by the influential Public Accounts Committee found. In 2020–21 and 2021–22, it concluded [...]

  • New tax year: First saver to max out ISA allowance took just six minutes after midnight

    April 7, 2023

    Some savers have already maxed out their new 2023-24 Isa allowances within hours – or even minutes – of the new tax year starting. Fidelity International Personal Investing said the first customer to maximise their new Isa allowance of £20,000 did so at six minutes past midnight on Thursday April 6. Ed Monk, associate director, [...]

  • A new tax year has started, here’s what you should be doing

    April 5, 2023

    Savers have welcomed in a new tax year, starting Thursday 6 April. These include putting savings into tax free accounts such as Isas; the annual contributions limit for Isas will remain frozen in the 2023/24 tax year, from April 6, at £20,000. Sarah Coles, head of personal finance at financial services provider Hargreaves Lansdown, said: [...]

  • Dubai court upholds extradition of British financier accused of £1.4bn tax fraud

    April 4, 2023

    A court in Dubai on Monday rejected the appeal of a British financier fighting extradition to Denmark, where he is accused of orchestrating a 1.7 billion US dollar (£1.4 billion) tax fraud. Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah is accused of masterminding a scheme that ran from 2012 to 2015 in which foreign businesses pretended to [...]

  • Capital gains tax allowance changes to hit half a million investors’ profits as tax year begins

    April 4, 2023

    Investors are being warned to be aware of the halving in the tax free amount of profit they can make when selling valuable assets, such as shares or a second home. Wealth manager Nutmeg said investors were likely to be caught out by capital gains tax (CGT) changes coming in on 6 April. After then [...]

  • No firms charged with ‘failure to prevent’ tax evasion in 6 years – here’s why

    April 3, 2023

    The UK taxman has not charged any British firm with the ‘failure to prevent tax evasion’ offence since it was introduced six years ago, HMRC has confirmed. Under the offence, introduced in 2017, a British company can be criminally prosecuted if it was found to have not put adequate checks and systems to prevent its [...]

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