Sir John Major was among the dignitaries who attended a memorial service for Lord Hoyle in Westminster on Tuesday.

USA. With much sadness we report the passing of John Reed, a long-time DFS Group senior executive who was a key contributor to the travel retailer’s success in Hawaii, Japan and the wider Pacific from ...

HMRC is to end the 'scandalous' practice of overtaxing pension withdrawals and forcing savers to claim refunds. It has bowed to pressure after pensioners had to reclaim £1.3billion of their own ...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is to end the “arcane” practice of emergency taxing pensioners on their retirement savings. Almost half a million people have paid too much tax since 2015 because ...

Unfortunately, HMRC applied "emergency tax codes" to these withdrawals, often resulting in pensioners being taxed far more than necessary. As a result, over 470,000 people have had to claim refunds, ...

MPs accuse the taxman of damaging public confidence in the tax system as millions prepare to fill their tax returns His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) faces criticism from MPs about its ...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has come under fire from a public spending watchdog for allegedly downgrading its services "as a matter of policy" and eroding trust in the tax system. The Public ...

But HMRC hit back strongly, with Jim Harra, First Permanent Secretary and chief executive of the revenue body describing the committee’s claims around HMRC’s customer service as “completely ...

HMRC has raked in an extra £620million as inheritance tax (IHT) receipts hit £6.3billion for the first three quarters of the 2024/25 financial year. As inheritance tax receipts continue to rise, ...

Have you found this content useful? Use the button above to save it to your profile. The public accounts committee (PAC) has raised concerns that HMRC has “sought to degrade its telephone service to ...