Next week Edinburgh Councillors will vote on whether to take forward a proposal to introduce a ‘transient visitor levy’ (TVL) to the public consultation stage. Supporters of the ‘tourism tax’ predict that it would bring [...]
As Scotland has different income tax rates to the rest of the UK, military personnel on the same salary are paying a different amount of tax depending on where they live. For many of those [...]
HMRC has recently said that there are over a million couples in civil partnerships and marriages missing out on their Marriage Allowance. This is simply because they have not filled in the application for this [...]
Should late taxpayers pay more interest on their payments than HMRC does on tax rebates? This interesting question has strong views on both sides, with the ACCA (a professional body for accountants) up in arms [...]
HMRC brought a case against 60 ‘level 1 national group’ football referees, saying that their employment status had been wrongly classified. The referees had been paying National Insurance Contributions (NICs) as self employed contractors. The [...]
This is the question being answered by a report from the Commission on Economic Justice. Their report has 72 recommendations to achieve a fairer and stronger UK economy. Some of them involve changes to the [...]
