HMRC paid out a record £400,000 in 2013 to people whistleblowing on tax avoidance activities, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request has revealed.
The chief executive and a former director of the tax specialist arm of financial group Montpelier have been cleared of cheating the public revenue of £1m, after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) dropped the case against them.
A director of a mortgage brokerage has been disqualified from acting as a company director for 13 years for misleading investors, the regulator and HMRC.
Former government chief whip Andrew Mitchell has invested in a high-profile film financing company considered to be a tax avoidance scheme by HMRC, according to reports.
A list of tax avoidance schemes whose users may be required to make an upfront payment of tax has been published by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
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HM Revenue and Customs has issued fresh guidance on its decision to tax unit rebates after receiving a number of queries from fund groups and platforms.
People looking to establish tax avoidance schemes will have to pay due taxes to HMRC upfront before applying to get it back through the courts, Chancellor George Osborne has announced.