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Tag archive for: Income tax
“Jeremy Vine latest to face HMRC in IR35 battle”
Yes, you heard it here first, there was something good in Liz Truss’s mini-budget: she abolished,...
“TV presenter wins 10-year IR35 battle against HMRC”
The infamous ‘IR35’ dates from the Gordon Brown (kids etc.) era. It was intended to stop...
“Chancellor scraps 45p income tax change in ‘embarrassing’ U-turn”
I wish this U-turn had been for the right, or for even vaguely altruistic reasons. For instance,...
“‘They were like bandits’ – how did the rich get richer?”
What governments did to ’support the economy’ was to get their ‘central bank’ (for us, the Bank of...
“Pandemic has fuelled ‘billionaire bonanza’ as richest see fortunes double, says Oxfam”
The rich got richer following both the Covid and Banking crashes. In 2020, US billionaires added...
“HMRC to relocate to Newcastle office owned by Tory donors via tax haven”
And here we see the thin dividing line between tax avoidance and evasion in sharp focus. Or, as...
“Tax avoidance crackdowns turn into an arms race warns HMRC in 189-page report”
There has always been a (sometimes thin) dividing line between tax avoidance (legal, working...
“HMRC sends ‘nudge’ letters to crypto investors over unpaid tax”
Governments’ and regulators’ first instinct is to try to regulate everything, even the...
“Labour to slash tax reliefs and hit wealthy in pursuit of balanced UK budget”
I reckon there are far more gig economy and newly or casual self-employed workers, who want to do...
“Labour plans to raise £500m by closing fund managers’ tax loophole”
All very worthy, tax the rich, private equity capitalists, don’t fleece hard-working-families by...
“National Insurance hiked to pay for social care reforms”
The problem is that National Insurance has become, over the years, just another form of income...
“Not such a taxing day, after all”
Tuesday was Tax Day, a new concept to me. It’s neither, apparently, another Budget nor an autumn...
“Ed Sheeran puts a song in taxman’s heart with £28m contribution”
Hearing about Ed Sheeran’s (parents etc.) £28m tax bill may have made you grind your teeth a...