Nearly two million over-65s forced to file tax returns
Increasing number of pensioners burdened with complex tax affairs
Increasing number of pensioners burdened with complex tax affairs
Announcement comes as the top rate threshold is reduced
Chancellor considering raising top rate from 45pc to 50pc at next week's Budget
Jeremy Hunt says ‘some taxes will have to go up’
The Government’s stealth tax move has pushed hundreds of thousands of taxpayers into paying the 45pc rate
Increasing number of pensioners burdened with complex tax affairs
Tax Hacks: child benefit and the state pension can easily trip you up
More than 22,000 people spent the holidays between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day telling the taxman how much they earned
It's likely we will have to continue to tolerate ineptitude accompanied by U-turns
Take care when using rebate companies
Policing bogus claims leading to delays in refunding genuine overpayments
Tax authority pulls in £326m as investigations step up following boom in property prices
Experts now say that Osborne's extra allowance has only served to complicate the death duty further
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's plan to freeze the tax-free allowance will see bereaved families pay an average of £283,000
The Treasury will pocket an extra £1bn from grieving families by extending a freeze on thresholds
Some families are using trusts to gift away holiday homes and investment properties
Bills may have been avoided altogether – had thresholds and allowances risen in real terms
The economics of tax cuts don’t seem to matter in the age of mindless optics
Buy-to-let to be hardest hit under Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's plans to cut the tax-free allowance
Taxpayers should be wary of a range of pitfalls when gifting a property
Investors can pay less capital gains tax if they keep careful track of gains and losses
Tax hacks: the seven-year IHT rule, the 25pc tax-free pensions lump sum and the grace period for CGT on homes all have peculiar origins