HMRC has already decided that its New Years resolution is to get tough on people who don’t submit their returns on time.

HMRC is planning going to help employers improve their PAYE data.

Contractor accountants may be interested to learn that the UK’s smallest businesses may soon be exempt from certain EU accounting regulations.

You cannot have failed to notice that there’s been a bit of trouble brewing in the Eurozone recently.

So this is Christmas, and what have we done? Well, speaking personally, quite a lot in one way and another. But it has been a funny old year in some ways.

Contractor accountants will have a busy month in January filing online self assessment returns for their clients.

In addition to HMRC’s relentless campaigns to tackle tax evasion, the Revenue has also been targeting sectors that exploit interns.

It may come as no surprise to some contractor accountants to hear that HMRC is going to have a new permanent secretary for tax next summer.

HMRC might need to consider changing the way it balances its books after the National Audit Office reported that the government department has no idea how much it spends on training.

You will probably have heard me sounding off at fairly regular intervals about how inconsistent and impossible to judge the average IR35 case is. I’ve looked at many appeal judgements over the years and each one has been supportable, given the vague nature of that which is being judged.

Young people wishing to become a contractor accountant specialising in audit, tax or management consulting will soon be able to join a new apprenticeship scheme backed by the government.

Two Welsh sisters were recently jailed for three and a half years after attempting to defraud HMRC out of £161 million.