Findings from the FSB’s latest Small Business Index (SBI) show that small businesses are feeling positive about their future prospects, with planned growth and investment at its highest since the Index began in 2010. ...

This week multiple reports were published as numerous charities and civil society organisations cried out against the profit-shifting and tax-dodging of multinational companies. The non-profit coalition is calling for the UK government to implement a tax-dodging bill that could save ...

A freelancing friend of mine (we’ll call her Katie) used to suffer, every year, from what I called her Month of Madness. In that month – the one immediately preceding the deadline for her online tax return submission – she ...

The polling stations have closed, the results have been pondered and wondered at, and the Conservatives once again hold the reins of power – this time, independently, with no chance of those reins being twitched sideways by the hand of ...

Pre-election, several political parties claimed that they were the party committed to small business. But the Conservatives went a step further, launching their Small Business Manifesto. It included some fairly specific promises about their plans for small business and carried ...

An exemption for trivial benefits in kind below £50 was expected to be introduced in the Finance Bill 2015, but has now been dropped for the foreseeable future. Tax experts are warning employers and contractors to take care when reporting ...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have warned that hundreds of thousands of people may face a big tax bill if they decide to dip into their pension pots from next week.  ...

A set of forms has recently been released by HM Revenue & Customs, so that individuals claiming from their pension pot can reclaim tax overpaid. ...

Finally some good news for those on minimum wage: the government has seen fit to increase it by 20p per hour, bringing it up to £6.70 from October this year. It’s a change that will help around 1.4 million hard ...

An announcement made by Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary of the Treasury, stated that companies assisting those who seek to evade tax will face penalties and criminal prosecution under tough new laws. ...