Cash for information: how HMRC is paying for intelligence
In November 2025, HMRC formally launched an enhanced informant and reward scheme, marking a significant shift in the UK’s approach to tackling serious tax avoidance and evasion.
In November 2025, HMRC formally launched an enhanced informant and reward scheme, marking a significant shift in the UK’s approach to tackling serious tax avoidance and evasion.
Cyber attacks are having a significant impact on both UK citizens and the economy.
Personal representatives of people who have died will face significant practical difficulties in administering estates containing pensions when inheritance tax is extended next year, mini
CIOT and ATT each provided four briefings to MPs debating the Finance Bill at the Committee of Whole House, with LITRG supplying a further note to support MPs’ scrutiny of the Bill.
‘Ministers were limited by their commitment to leave income tax rates and bands unchanged before the Scottish elections,’ observed Ellen Milner, the Institute’s Director of Public Policy.
‘People making or buying things with a view to selling at a profit and making over £1,000 of income (before expenses) each tax year need to carefully consider whether they could have tax to pay.’
In the first half of the year, professional bodies received a significant number of concerns from members who were struggling to navigate agent account suspensions and, in some cases, dealing
Thank you to all our members who have submitted their annual return. If you have not yet submitted your 2025 Annual Return (which was due by 31 January 2026), it is now late.
Professional Conduct in Relation to Taxation (PCRT) has been in place for a number of years and sets out the fundamental princ
The implementation of the OECD’s Pillar Two initiative around the world, establishing a global minimum tax regime, represents one of the most significant developments in international tax gove