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  • Complex offshore tax avoidance scheme revealed

    Complex offshore tax avoidance scheme revealed

    A complex tax avoidance scheme that moves income offshore has been exposed by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) today (29 February 2024), with anyone who has joined the arrangement warned to get out of it as soon as possible. The scheme – linked to businessman Darren Patrick-Green – involves contractors joining Singapore registered Procorre LLP to avoid paying Income Tax and National Insurance.

  • March is top month for Marriage Allowance claims

    March is top month for Marriage Allowance claims

    As the tax year draws to a close, couples who are married or in civil partnerships could be due a financial boost by sharing unused tax allowances.
    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed March is the most popular month for Marriage Allowance applications, with almost 70,000 couples applying in March last year. And with the option to backdate their claim for the previous 4 tax years, eligib

  • Ringleader Mohammed Zafer and cash seized from the gang

    Gang jailed for laundering £26m

    A gang that sent £26 million of dirty money to Dubai after depositing criminal cash at banks a dozen times a day for nearly a year have been jailed

  • Tax credits recipients to receive Cost of Living Payment from today

    Tax credits recipients to receive Cost of Living Payment from today

    Around 700,000 families, who receive tax credits and no other qualifying benefits, will receive their £299 Cost of Living Payment from today, 16 February 2024, to help with everyday costs.
    HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is making the payments to eligible tax credits customers across the UK between 16 and 22 February 2024.
    More than 7 million eligible UK households have already received the

  • Warning to Self Assessment customers as scam referrals exceed 200,000

    Warning to Self Assessment customers as scam referrals exceed 200,000

    With the Self Assessment tax deadline behind us, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is warning people to be wary of bogus tax refund offers. Fraudsters could set their sights on Self Assessment customers, with more than 11.5 million submitting a tax return by last month’s deadline. Taxpayers who completed their tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year by the 31 January deadline might be taken in.

  • Know your worth - check your apprentice pay rates

    Know your worth - check your apprentice pay rates

    During National Apprenticeship Week HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is encouraging apprentices to claim the money that is rightfully theirs. Whether that’s making sure you’re being paid the correct hourly rate to claiming the savings in your Child Trust Fund, this is how to do it.
    Know your worth
    You’ve started an apprenticeship, you’re bringing home a wage, but are you getting paid correct

  • A record 11.5 million tax returns filed by the deadline

    A record 11.5 million tax returns filed by the deadline

    A record-breaking 11.5 million taxpayers submitted their Self Assessment tax returns for the 2022 to 2023 tax year by midnight on 31 January, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reveals.
    More than 12.1 million taxpayers were expected to file a tax return and pay any tax owed. Of those that met their obligations by the deadline, 778,068 beat the clock to complete it on 31 January, including:
    61,54

  • Anthony Bond

    Gold bars sold to repay VAT fraud

    Gold bars, luxury watches and rare coins will be auctioned off to recover public money stolen in a VAT fraud. Anthony Bond, 66, from Great Missenden, Bucks, was jailed for seven-and-a-half years in April 2019 for a ‘missing trader’ VAT fraud.

  • 44,800 customers opt to spread the cost as tax deadline looms

    44,800 customers opt to spread the cost as tax deadline looms

    As the deadline to submit a Self Assessment tax returns looms, nearly 44,800 people have sorted their tax bills totalling almost £148 million, by setting up a payment plan.

    More than 7.7 million Self Assessment customers have already filed their tax return for the 2022 to 2023 tax year, but HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding anyone who still needs to pay their tax bill should do so

  • HMRC make it an ‘appy New Year for jobseekers

    HMRC make it an ‘appy New Year for jobseekers

    With the New Year a popular time to change job, those seeking a career change can join the 1.2 million people a month already saving precious time with an essential app download for 2024.

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