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Family investment companies (FICs) are frequently touted by tax advisers as the silver bullet to a client’s estate planning problems.

Simon York CBE is a former Director of HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service and has spent his career in tax and financial investigation.

HMRC’s Transformation Roadmap was published on 21 July 2025 and is an extensive vision for HMRC’s future and the future UK tax system (see tinyurl.com/bdd

The merged research and development (R&D) tax relief scheme was introduced for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2024.

Yachts and horses have often been grouped together as targets for HMRC with regards to private usage.

HMRC published its estimate of the Tax Gap on 19 June 2025 – covering the 2023-24 tax year, with revisions of estimates for previous years (see

On 26 March 2025, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered the Spring Statement 2025, unveiling a comprehensive package of measures designed to add

I can remember the first time I saw a corporation tax assessment seeking tax on a loan to a participator.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been the recent buzz.

An HMRC investigation or enquiry can be a worrying development for a business but for those in HMRC’s ‘Large Business Service’, it is par for the course.