Taxpayers and companies who deliberately evade taxes face having their name, address and details of their evasion made public after new legislation was put into force today.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will be able to publish names and details of individuals and companies who are caught dodging their taxes from 1 April 2010.
Stephen Timms, Financial [...]

HM Revenue & Customs’ Business Payment Support Service (BPSS) has helped over 160,000 businesses reschedule more than £5billion of tax in its first 15 months, new figures reveal today.
The BPSS gives viable businesses, experiencing temporary difficulties paying their taxes, the opportunity to reschedule their tax payments to a more affordable timetable, as part of a [...]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched its first ever ‘Super Podcast’, to alert businesses to major changes in the way they file and pay VAT, PAYE and corporation tax.

The free, audio podcast highlights important VAT changes coming in on 1 April 2010, which mean VAT-registered traders with annual turnovers of £100,000 or more (excluding [...]

Figures published on 16 February, by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), show that the annual rate of inflation as measured by the headline Retail Prices Index (RPI) rose sharply to 3.7% in January, up from 2.4% in December. John Philpott, Chief Economic Adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), says that [...]

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued an urgent alert to employers in Scotland – important PAYE changes are coming this spring, so make sure you’re prepared for them.
HMRC is writing to all employers in the region this month to remind then that, from this year, they must file their Employer Annual Returns online by [...]

A record number of taxpayers filed their Self Assessment tax returns online this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) revealed.

A total of 6,429,899 people filed online by the 31 January deadline – three quarters of all returns submitted. This represents an increase of nearly 12% on the 2009 total, when around 5.8m people filed online [...]

How employers go about organising jobs can affect a variety of issues in the workplace, including pay, career progression and security, according to a recent study.
According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research outlines what managers and HR professionals could do to offer greater security and [...]

Increasing numbers of businesses carrying out pay freezes or reducing career mobility could see security put at risk, it has been claimed.
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, back office cuts are to leave firms and public sector organisations at additional exposure to fraudsters as the UK emerges from recession.
Workers anxious about maintaining their living standards and their career [...]

PADA, the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, has announced that National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will be the permanent name of the new national workplace pension scheme formerly known as the personal accounts scheme.
NEST will be a national workplace pension scheme designed specifically for low-to-moderate earners. It is being set up as part of the Government’s workplace [...]

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has warned UK businesses to expect continued pay freezes and redundancies in the new year as the economy begins to recover from the recession.
According to the group, this recovery process is likely to be “fragile” and unemployment levels have yet to peak, reaching what is believed to be their [...]