Today, 9 February 2024, HMRC will be sending a text message to eligible tax credit claimants reminding them of the payment dates for the next cost of living payment.  

Various attempts are being made by the governments in Scotland and Wales to make council tax ‘fairer’. We take a look at some of the reasons for the perceived unfairness of council tax, and some of the suggestions as to how to resolve this.

The noise about ‘side hustle tax’ is showing no signs of dying down and we are still seeing incorrect information circulating online about the tax position of people selling items via online platforms. We previously published a flowchart trying to provide clarity on the rules. In this, our ...

The coronavirus pandemic saw the government, devolved administrations and local authorities making a huge range of payments to businesses, individuals and families. In most cases, these payments were made in the 2020/21 and 2021/22 tax years. On this page, we explain the tax and National Insurance ...

LITRG submitted a response to the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into HMRC’s 2022-23 Standard Report.

State pensions are increasing in April 2024, but the point at which most people start to pay tax is staying the same. Here we look ahead some of the problems this might cause. We also give our ideas on how the government could make things easier for state pensioners – some of which we originally ...