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HMRC can now raid your bank account

Recently, HMRC announced that it plans to chase lower value tax debt more aggressively by direct recovery of debt powers

David Jones

23 Jul 2026

Comments on Global News, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax News, Uncategorized

Are student loans a stealth tax?

Many readers of this Blog will either have a student loan themselves or have an employee who has one, but

David Jones

16 Jul 2026

Accounts, Business Regulation, Business Tax, Corporate Tax Planning, Making Tax Digital, Opinion, PAYE & RTI, Personal Finance, Personal Tax Planning, Self Assessment, Tax News, VAT

HMRC plan to collect all tax by direct debit

Today’s Blog is about mounting HMRC concerns over late payment of VAT and PAYE. They are now looking at ways

David Jones

10 Jul 2026

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Millennials & Zoomers use TikTok to thwart HMRC’s evil plan

A sceptic might think that HMRC’s decision to no longer issue PAYE refunds automatically, is nothing more than a cynical

David Jones

26 Jul 2024

Business Tax, Tax News

Can HMRC’s mistakes be stopped by even more investment?

As readers of the Blog will be well aware, I have regularly commented on HMRC’s apparent reluctance to tackle the

David Jones

19 Jul 2024

Tax News, Business Tax, Opinion, Personal Tax Planning

A potted history of tax avoidance

Starting shortly after WW1, coincidentally about the time that women got the vote, the general public’s attitude to tax avoidance

David Jones

12 Jul 2024

Tax News, Business Tax, Opinion, Personal Tax Planning

Labour pledges not to raise taxes on working people

This was the headline grabber of Labour’s Party Manifesto, which then set out in bullet points what they intend to

David Jones

5 Jul 2024

Business Tax, Accounts, Business Regulation

HMRC has paid out £1m in compensation for delays

As regular readers of the Blog will be well aware, HMRC’s customer service has been subject to increasing levels of

David Jones

28 Jun 2024

Self Assessment

VAT on School Fees

School Fee VAT: Now that all of the political parties have published their manifestos, today I’m looking at one particular

David Jones

24 Jun 2024

Business Regulation, Business Tax, Opinion, Tax News

HMRC wins gold medal for failure

The National Audit Office (NAO) has just published its latest Customer Service report on HMRC and in summary it concludes

David Jones

30 May 2024

Accounts

HMRC has finally accepted the need for qualified accountants

As part of HMRC’s ongoing work to raise standards in the tax advice market, the tax department hasupdated its required

David Jones

30 May 2024

Tax News, Personal Tax Planning, Tax Investigations

Kinks & notches in the tax system

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) recently published a very interesting report on thresholds in the tax system, which highlighted

David Jones

23 May 2024

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