Tax

Record numbers file online tax returns

A record 6.9 million people filed their tax returns online by the January deadline, HM Revenue & Customs said yesterday.

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Record 6.9 million file online tax returns

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

A record 6.9 million people filed their tax return online by the January deadline, HM Revenue & Customs said today.

Three-quarters of a million 'to pay higher rate of tax'

Monday, 31 January 2011

Decision to reduce the threshold at which the higher rate kicks in to �35,001, from �37,400 this year.

Teachers and nurses dragged into top-rate tax bracket

Monday, 31 January 2011

Three quarters of a million people, among them nurses and teachers, will be dragged into the higher 40 per cent tax rate from April, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

�100 penalty for late self-assessment tax returns

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Self-assessment taxpayers have a week to send in their electronic tax returns for the 2009-10 tax year.

'Lenient' tax deals to be probed by Audit Office

Thursday, 20 January 2011

Controversial deals struck by the taxman with multinational companies that owe enormous amounts in tax are to be investigated by the National Audit Office.

Nine million people face tougher tax penalties

Saturday, 8 January 2011

HMRC investigators have sharpened up their act when checking the UK's self-assessment forms – so double-check yours, says Neasa MacErlean

Why George's ski trip was just start of slippery slope

Wednesday, 5 January 2011

Sean O'Grady: 2011 has been tough so far for the Chancellor – and worse is to come.

Late tax forms could mean �440m fines

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Consumers could be fined more than �440 million this year for handing in their self-assessment tax forms late or miscalculating how much they owe, it was estimated today.

City says it pays 11.2 per cent of Britain's taxes

Thursday, 16 December 2010

The City of London yesterday sought to put a more positive sheen on its somewhat tarnished reputation, arguing that Britain's financial services industry last year accounted for more than £1 of every £10 raised by the Treasury in tax.