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Hammond says avoidance measures will raise £820m

He also said that the government would abolish tax advantages given to employee shareholder status after gathering evidence that it was being used by high-earners as a tax planning tool.

Budget 2017: Aggressive cut to tax free dividend allowance

"There was no major overhaul of pension tax reliefs, as some had feared.

Spring Budget 2017 - Deloitte

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HMRC sets two year window to appeal offshore bond withdrawals

The UK tax office has given policyholders two years to appeal unfair or disproportionate tax bills resulting from mistaken withdrawals from life policies.

Should I give my children a lump sum now?

I’m concerned they might squander the money

UK advisers to alert HMRC if clients use offshore tax structures

Financial advisers in the UK could be required to notify HMRC of all clients using offshore tax planning structures.

HMRC reveals 80% rise in annual allowance breaches

This means for those people with incomes of over £210,000 their annual allowance will be £10,000.

Govt unable to estimate lifetime allowance tax take

But for forward-looking projections, it said it did not hold any data.

Cheshire Accountancy Firms Merge

The merger broadens our client base and the new staff structure adds to our existing quality and expertise creating a bigger, stronger and better accountancy firm serving Crewe and Nantwich and the surrounding areas.

Non-doms: time is running out - RSM

Despite the new draft rules being incomplete, and with less than four months left until their effective date.

A new back-door property tax

It is the rise in probate fees.

Five-minute guide to the new death tax coming into force next May

Grieving families will soon be forced to pay a new death tax that could cost them many thousands of pounds.

Buy-to-let landlords face huge tax increase from new law

A time bomb has been placed under the once thriving buy-to-let market and is primed to explode in exactly one month.

The state of play on tax evasion and avoidance

HMRC received the data from the CDOTs in September 2016 and has begun the process of matching that data to information it already holds in order to decide who to investigate.

We Have Nothing More to Say to EU’s Panama Panel

Luxembourg is being investigated by the European Commission for giving hundreds of favorable tax rulings to multinational companies.

MPs investing in cigarette companies, oil giants and 'tax avoiders' through their pension scheme

The Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund also invests in several US tech giants accused by MPs themselves of avoiding tax

Sweden unhappy over Portugal’s pension tax exemption

Sweden has reportedly notified Portugal of its displeasure at the exemption offoreign pensioners from paying tax here.

Italian Tax Court rules dividend withholding tax on non-EU pension funds is in breach of EU's free movement of capital principle

It has been used in a series of rulings of the European Court of Justice.

EU Mulls Tax Sanctions for Countries Branded Tax Havens

All of the sanctions could apply to an EU company doing business within a jurisdiction that ends up on the EU tax haven blacklist.

The state of play on tax evasion and avoidance

Penalties can be up to 100 per cent of that other person's tax liability.