It is no surprise that the Irish government is kicking back hard against a Brussels finding that it gave Apple up to £10.8 billion in illegal state aid via a secret, sweetheart tax deal spanning many years. These are the kind of deals, after all, that have become the lifeblood of Ireland’s economy over the […]

The head of the HMRC has called on the government to review the ‘rather convoluted’ way in which some top-flight football players pay tax on image rights, after a specialist HMRC team dedicated to footballers’ tax affairs recovered £158m in additional yield over the past two years Jon Thompson, HMRC CEO, was giving evidence to […]

MPs have warned plans to move HM Revenue and Customs services online could lead to a “disastrous decline” in customer service. Current waiting times to get through to an adviser are about five minutes with plans to get that down further, according to HMRC. In a report by the Commons public accounts committee MPs said […]