New powers for HM Revenue & Customs will see £2,000 a year from taxpayers’ salaries deducted to recover tax debts, in a move that accountants fear could cause taxpayers serious financial hardship and leave other creditors out of pocket.

HM Revenue and Customs has been criticised for guidance it has released to assist homosexual and transgender taxpayers. The 20-page document has been labelled by critics an unnecessary use of taxpayers’ money. It advises people in civil partnerships about their tax allowance and inheritance tax thresholds. For example, a man who would normally be eligible [...]

Water footprinting should be taken more seriously by businesses. Carbon emissions accounting and reporting is a practice already underway, or at least under discussion, in most entities. But how about water footprint accounting? It seems the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) wants to get a jump on things and is calling for accountants to [...]

Judith Tydd, Accountancy Age, Thursday 18 June 2009 at 18:27:00 HMRC CEO admits the collection of smaller tax debts is not a top priority, as redundancies have resulted in a revision of debt collection and staff are now being redeployed into debt management The CEO of HM Revenue & Customs has admitted that collecting tax [...]

I see from today’s papers that the tax payers alliance are trying to get MPs prosecuted. http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/campaign/2009/06/private-prosecution-ge… Shouldn’t HMRC start with prosecutions and fines on the Fees office staff who failed to submit P11Ds?