Hi °C | Lo °C HMRC names tax fiddlers for first time – who and why?
History was made 21 February 2013. HMRC published its first ever list of people who have fiddled their taxes but not been prosecuted.
Tax refund email scam alert, not from HMRC
It’s the phishing season again. Since lots of people filed their tax returns in recent weeks, the criminal fraternity is out to benefit.
Tax panic as HMRC January deadline looms
This December and January I have noticed far more people worried about the fact that they have not submitted their 2011/12 Self Assessment Tax Return. Why, I wonder, are there more people worried than before?
Child Benefit Chaos - a simple guide
Child Benefit is changing for over a million people. Are you one? Did you do what you needed to by Sunday 6 January 2013? How do you sort this mess out?
HSBC whistleblower names UK accounts in Jersey
The Daily Telegraph reported on 9 November 2012 that that same week a bank whistleblower had grassed up 4,388 UK people with accounts at HSBC in Jersey.
Earning money as an HMRC informant?
HMRC is paying many thousands of pounds each year to informants who tell them about people who are not declaring all of their income.
Tax chickens come home to roost as £1,200 penalties land
I warned in previous articles that the new penalties for late 2010/11 Tax Returns were eye-watering in their ferocity.
BBC's tax-dodging workers outed in Parliament: How the system works
MPs will quiz top officials from the BBC and a public sector union today about about presenters who are not actually their employees.
Hair-raising tax task-force for Northern Ireland
Hairdressers and beauty salons in Northern Ireland face a clampdown from today. HMRC has launched a taskforce in the province to bring in an extra £2.5 million. Up to 300 businesses may be hit.
Banking – is the Branch broken?
Today I learned how the push for online banking puts bankers’ jobs at risk.
Belfast man sentenced for cigarette smuggling
HMRC tells us that on 31 May 2012 a 40 year-old man, who smuggled 200,000 cigarettes through Belfast Port where he worked as boatman, was sentenced to 200 hours community service.
ebay & Gumtree beware...the Tax-man clicketh
eBay, Gumtree and other online marketplaces are great for getting that long sought item, or pulling in some cash from what you don’t need. So why is the tax-man sniffing around?
Smacking from HMRC for late Tax Returns
Anyone who has been issued with, and has still not filed, their 2010/11 Tax Return faces being smacked with horrendous penalties from 1 May 2012. They will have already been fined £100 but that will soon seem like peanuts.
Isle of Man banks handing info to HMRC
Letters received in recent days will have caused a few people to choke on their Corn-Flakes. The banks in the Isle of Man are about to pass details for the first time to the UK tax people – the feared HMRC.
Harry Redknapp and the dog walk free from tax case
Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric have walked free after a jury found them not guilty of tax evasion (posh term ‘cheating the public revenue’). My national BBC interview about the fall-out from the case is at www.YouTube.com/HustonTV
Ed Lester and the Student Loan Company tax scandal
My latest video is about the story broken by the BBC that Ed Lester (Chief Executive of the Student Loans Company) is not taxed the way a Chief Executive should be. Video is at www.Youtube.com/HustonTV .
Tax Return penalties £10 per day from 1 February 2012
Stop press – HMRC staff’s industrial action will do nothing to save money for people filing a paper Tax Return on 1 or 2 February 2012 .
Personal Finance Questions: I see house prices are continuing to drop.
Question : I see house prices are continuing to drop. We are considering buying a house. Can you tell me how possible it is to get a mortgage and what do you need to do to convince the lender?
Redknapp & the tax-fiddling dog
In my YouTube video ( Tax Evasion for Pets ) Kim the tax fiddling collie opens her own bank account
Tax Help joins the YouTube age
I write this as my YouTube channel marks an important milestone. Videos on it, offering free tax advice, have now been viewed a total of 10,000 times.
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