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Extra £160m Crossrail taxpayer bill
Filed under: Tax PA The taxpayer will have to cover a £160 million shortfall in private-sector funding for London's Crossrail project after the Department for Transport (DfT) failed to secure the...
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The best places to keep your tax bill money
Filed under: Tax Getty Images/Image Source 31st January isn't just the self-assessment deadline; it's also the day self-employed people have to pay a large tax bill. So where should they be keeping...
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50p tax rate 'would cost jobs'
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images David Cameron has accused Labour of putting "political convenience" above good economics by pledging to restore the 50p top tax rate on earnings over...
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Royal household finances criticised
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images The Queen's royal household could be doing more to reduce its costs and increase income, and needs to get a firmer grip on a backlog of property...
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Democracy in local government; sounds like a good idea
Filed under: Tax PA Archive/Press Association Images Councils are often accused of being a law unto themselves, particularly when it comes to the amount of council tax they collect and what they choose...
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Tax return deadline looms for 1.6m
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / Gunnar Pippel Around 1.6 million people still need to submit their self-assessment tax returns by the end of Friday or face an automatic £100 penalty. Meanwhile, a...
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Migrants 'should pay in £2,000'
Filed under: Tax Getty Images/Vetta Migrants should be required to pay a £2,000 "National Insurance Advance" upon first entering the UK, a liberal think tank has said. In the second of three...
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UK benefits 'too low' - report
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has dismissed as "lunacy" a Council of Europe report suggesting UK social security payments are...
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Sell us elderly people's homes to help the property shortage
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / Pressmaster It doesn't matter where in the country you live, everyone is going property mad; estate agents can't get properties on their websites fast enough before...
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Warning over child benefit deadline
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images Some 100,000 higher-earning families who have not registered to opt out of receiving child benefit will be in line for fines if they fail to contact...
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Last-minute extension for self-assessment deadline - for some
Filed under: Tax Getty Images/Vetta It's the final day for filing your tax return. You have until midnight tonight to get it in, and still up to 1.5 million people have failed to submit their return...
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Taxman receives £17,000 a second
Filed under: Tax PA The taxman is receiving around £17,000 a second in payments in the final hours before the self-assessment deadline. By lunchtime today, around 9.5 million self-assessment forms had...
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What to do if you missed the tax return deadline
Filed under: Tax Shutterstock / micro10x The deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns has passed. If you missed it, here's what you should do right now. The deadline for filing online...
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Who to believe on the 50p income tax debate?
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images Lies, damn lies and HMRC statistics are in the armoury of both the Tories and Labour when they go into battle over the 50p tax rate. Shadow chancellor...
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Alexander rules out 40p tax rate
Filed under: Tax AP Danny Alexander has ratcheted up the coalition spat over the top rate of tax by insisting it will be cut to 40p "over my dead body". The Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the...
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Clegg blocks lower council tax cap
Filed under: Tax AP Town halls will be able to hike council tax by up to 2% without holding a referendum after the Liberal Democrats blocked Tory calls for a tougher limit. Deputy Prime Minister Nick...
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Clash over extra 'bedroom tax' cash
Filed under: Tax PA The UK Government has insisted legal changes are not needed for ministers at Holyrood to spend extra cash mitigating the impact of the so-called 'bedroom tax'. Scotland Office...
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'Bedroom tax' error hits thousands
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images The Government has been accused of understating the number of council tenants who have been wrongly hit by the so-called 'bedroom tax' changes to...
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Council tax suspended for victims
Filed under: Tax AP Flood victims in Somerset will not have to pay part of their council tax until they return to their homes, the local authority announced today. Somerset County Council will suspend...
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Threatened tax offices 'a lifeline'
Filed under: Tax PA Wire/Press Association Images All 281 walk-in tax offices in the UK are to close and a new service will open, in a move unions warned put 1,300 jobs at risk. HM Revenue and Customs...
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