The taxman will be launching a digital campaign with people being warned ahead of the crackdown 14:03, 14 Aug 2025Updated 14:35, 14 Aug 2025 HMRC will run a digital campaign to ensure tax is being done correctly HMRC has announced a crackdown on “personal expenditure”, issuing a stark warning to millions of UK households. The
Tax office will issue 1.4 million simple assessments for the 2024-25 tax year, a rise of 80,000 from the previous year – a specialist warns that these tax bills will “catch pensioners off guard” 1.4 million assessments for the last tax year have been issued – here’s what you need to know(Image: Yau Ming Low
At present, council tax bills are normally spread over ten months every year – but a new shake-up wants to make 12 months the default 12:00, 14 Aug 2025Updated 12:01, 14 Aug 2025 Council tax bills are paid over ten months by default(Image: Getty Images) Council tax bills will be spread out over 12 months
Councils are using robots to answer phone calls from residents despite raising council tax by the maximum amount in April. Local authorities are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to listen to and answer phone calls in a bid to save millions of pounds each year. However, the loss of human interaction has not resulted in
Inheritance Tax is sometimes paid on the ‘estate’ of someone that has died, including property, possessions and money – but how exactly does it affect you? We explain how Inheritance Tax rules work(Image: Getty Images) Rachel Reeves could be set to introduce more changes to Inheritance Tax, a report claims, including a possible cap on
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email The Treasury is reportedly considering tightening the rules around inheritance tax as part of an attempt to plug a £50bn black hole in the public finances.
6 April 2025: first day of the new 2025-26 tax year New tax rates and allowances for 2025-26 come into force from today, so make sure you know if anything has changed. If you have all of the information you need, you could file your 2024-25 tax return from this date. 31 July 2025: second
CFOs are all in on AI. According to new research from Salesforce, only 4% of CFOs surveyed say they have a conservative approach to the technology—a precipitous drop from the 70% who were careful about it in 2020, and the 34% who were slowly approaching it in 2023. According to Salesforce, nearly four out of
The self-employed and landlords should start preparing now as it will soon be mandatory for them to use the HMRC’s Making Tax Digital for Income Tax The launch on April 6, 2026 will mark a significant and time-saving change for certain people in how to report income to HMRC.(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) With less than a
The launch on April 6, 2026 will mark a significant and time-saving change for certain people in how to report income to HMRC. Income tax rises for Scots in April – how the changes affect you There is less than a year to go until sole traders and landlords with an income over £50,000 will