HMRC has updated guidance on registering as an agent or receiving an agent code to confirm the timescale for a response is now up to 40 days.

The UK Government has set out next stages for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Finance Bill.

The CIOT has written a letter to the Chair of the Treasury Committee, Dame Meg Hillier MP regarding some of the tax measures in the October 2024 Budget.

HMRC has published updated advisory fuel rates for company cars, effective from 1 December 2024.

25 November 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HMRC has published issue 125 of Agent Update.

HMRC has published details of the online service to use when replacing the filing member for an existing Pillar 2 top-up taxes account.

HMRC is reducing the late-payment interest rate to 7.25% and the repayment rate to 3.75% from 26 November 2024 for most taxes and payments. Interest on quarterly instalment payments of corporation tax will also be reduced from 18 November.

These Regulations are made to amend the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 (the LTTA 2017) to insert a new Schedule 21A (relief for special tax sites) which provides for a new relief from land transaction tax for qualifying transactions of land within a special tax site.

HMRC has published new guidance on paying Pillar 2 top-up taxes

These Regulations outline the methodology for calculating the average prices of oil and gas over a reference period, which will determine if the conditions for the early termination of the Energy Profits Levy (the Energy Security Investment Mechanism) under Section 17A(1) of the Energy (Oil and Gas) Profits Levy Act 2022 (the 2022 Act) have been met.

The Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Act 2024 has received Royal Assent.

This report sets out recent developments in international tax reform and covers progress made on the implementation of the BEPS minimum standards and tax transparency, as well as updates on tax policy, tax and inequality and tax administration.

18 November 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

The 2024 UK-Romania Double Taxation Agreement has been published by HMRC.

Published on 7 November 2024, Finance Bill 2025 includes many of the Autumn Budget announcements, with a revised version of the legislation to replace the tax treatment of resident but non-UK domiciled individuals.

11 November 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HMRC have published Guidelines for Compliance for qualifying companies who have elected into the Patent Box tax treatment.

Certain provisions of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) relating to civil recovery of cryptoassets in Scotland come into force on 7 November 2024 and the offence of failing to prevent fraud across the UK on 1 September 2025.

Amendments are made to the Platform Operators (Due Diligence and Reporting Requirements) Regulations 2023, SI 2023/817 to ensure that, where there is a UK platform operator, information about sellers who are resident in the UK must be reported to HMRC. They also remove regulation 10 to remove the proportional reduction of thresholds for reporting in cases where the seller is registered on the platform for only part of a reportable period.