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UK tax

  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Richard Layard
    Apprenticeships can help fix the UK’s growth problem

    A clear commitment to train young people for work will help the government’s economic agenda

    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer tries some welding during a visit to Sandwell College
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Higher medicine sales tax makes UK ‘uninvestable’, warn drugmakers

    Industry lobby group calls for action from government ahead of summit in April

    A pharmacist looks for medication on a pharmacy’s shelves in London
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    HMRC probes into unpaid capital gains tax trebled in 2023-24

    UK tax agency is under growing pressure from government to increase revenue by improving compliance

    Ten pound banknotes
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    ‘A horrible situation’: the entrepreneurs caught in R&D tax credit debacle

    Small businesses owners have been targeted in HMRC crackdown

    Garden art designer Charlotte Clemence
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    Work & Careers
    ‘Rent-a-chair’ salons create crisis for hairdressing bosses

    Businesses registering workers as self-employed are undercutting rivals

    Donna Finn, who owns the Fe’Male Ego hair and beauty salon in Hull
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Threshold for filing ‘side hustle’ tax return to rise to £3,000 in UK

    Cash earnings to increase from current level of £1,000 in boost to people who sell goods online

    A woman packing a cardboard box with tape, surrounded by shipping supplies, packages and a laptop
  • Saturday, 8 March, 2025
    David Firn
    Want to boost UK’s investment culture? Exempt stocks-and-shares Isas from IHT

    I doubt the government will go for my idea, but it could increase investment in UK plc — and make people richer

    View of the City of London
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    Aim Isas’ fading appeal may actually help UK private businesses

    Ways to invest while taking advantage of business relief

    Montage of London office buildings and £50 banknotes
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Financial services
    Ministers plan to shelve VAT tax hit on UK investment funds

    Treasury considers blocking HMRC’s proposals after backlash from City bosses

    HM Revenue & Customs
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    Isa Guide 2025
    Are Lisas fit for purpose for homebuyers?

    MPs review the effectiveness of the much-criticised savings scheme

    A couple look in the window of an estate agent
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Moira O'Neill
    Venture capital trusts have little reason to celebrate turning 30

    Fundraising for the tax-efficient assets is up 10 per cent this year — but they remain a niche choice

    Illustration of sharks swimming in the sea with a line chart in the sky above ending with a decline
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Bonus season: how does yours measure up?

    Our annual survey of FT readers shows bonus payouts are on the rise, but so too are tax concerns and school fees

    Illustration of a stork bird delivering a bag of money
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    UK agriculture
    UK Treasury rejects farmers’ inheritance tax compromise

    Government will not back down on reforms outlined in Budget, industry told during meeting with officials

    A farmers’ protest causes gridlock in central London last week
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    HMRC ditches crackdown on private equity tax

    UK tax authority rows back on changes to whether limited liability partners can be seen as employees

    A woman in a red dress using her phone walks past an HM Revenue & Customs building with a yellow ‘H’ sign on the wall
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
    Rachel Reeves leaves door open to raising UK taxes next month

    Poor economic data and flatlining growth are threatening to erode the chancellor’s £9.9bn margin of error

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    HMRC ‘vastly underestimating’ UK tax evasion, MPs say

    Cross-party committee warns agency is not ‘sufficiently curious’ about scale of illegal practice

    Pedestrians passing the HMRC tax department in London
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    UK to change ‘unintended’ non-dom hit to overseas bank accounts

    Effect of provision would be reversed pending ministerial sign-off, Treasury official says

    HM Revenue & Customs letterhead and UK banknotes
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Poor customer service hitting trust in UK tax authority

    Both individuals and most businesses have lost faith in HMRC, spending watchdog finds

    The HM Revenue and Customs building in Whitehall
  • Sunday, 9 February, 2025
    Advisers urge wealthy Britons to consider life assurance to reduce IHT

    Experts expect the arrangement to increase in popularity as ministers expand the scope of inheritance tax

    Pallbearers carry a coffin at a funeral
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Lloyds Banking Group
    Lloyds hit with £1bn tax bill after legal challenge fails

    UK lender loses first round in battle against HMRC over assets inherited as part of government-backed HBOS takeover

    Woman cycles past branch of Lloyds bank
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s parallels with Thatcher may be more than just rhetoric

    Former Tory leader increased taxes before imposing reforms in deregulatory drive that Keir Starmer wants to emulate

    Keir Starmer and the ghost of Margaret Thatcher
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    Tax lawyers working ‘flat out’ for non-doms who choose not to leave UK

    Global estates are being restructured ahead of planned change in April

    Montage shows woman on a mobile phone against a backdrop of the HMRC logo
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Will you spend your pension before Rachel Reeves does?

    The £40bn impact of the inheritance tax shake-up will prompt more families to spend or gift the money

  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Pensions industry
    UK pensions tax changes to bring in ‘more than £40bn’ before 2045

    Longer-term estimates predict the measures could bring in £3bn a year by 2043

    A man walks past the entrance to the UK Treasury in Whitehall
  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Inheritance
    Would you leave your children out of your will?

    Trillions of pounds will be handed down in coming decades as part of the Great Wealth Transfer — but some parents are opting out

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