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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves has confirmed the Spring forecast will take place on Wednesday 26 March 2025.

16 December 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

The CIOT has published Finance Bill 2024-25 briefings on capital gains tax and oil and gas taxation

These Regulations are made to amend the Land Transaction Tax (Tax Bands and Tax Rates) (Wales) Regulations 2018, SI 2018/128 to insert revised percentage tax rates for the tax bands applicable to higher rates residential property transactions. They come into force on 11 December 2024.

The CIOT and ICAEW have published a report addressing HMRC’s customer service challenges, setting out ten recommendations for improvements.

9 December 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HMRC has published a new guidance page on Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD IT).

The Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison delivered the Scottish Budget on Wednesday 4 December 2024.

HMRC has published its latest Stakeholder Digest (29 November 2024).

2 December 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HMRC has updated guidance on registering as an agent or receiving an agent code to confirm the timescale for a response is now up to 40 days.

The UK Government has set out next stages for Parliamentary scrutiny of the Finance Bill.

HMRC has published new guidance advising taxpayers how to check if they need to tell HMRC about income from online platforms.

The CIOT has written a letter to the Chair of the Treasury Committee, Dame Meg Hillier MP regarding some of the tax measures in the October 2024 Budget.

The OECD has published a number of reports on its Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes.

25 November 2024 - This roundup sets out the most important changes to HMRC manuals over the past week as curated by our editors

HMRC has published issue 125 of Agent Update.

HMRC is reducing the late-payment interest rate to 7.25% and the repayment rate to 3.75% from 26 November 2024 for most taxes and payments. Interest on quarterly instalment payments of corporation tax will also be reduced from 18 November.

These Regulations are made to amend the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 (the LTTA 2017) to insert a new Schedule 21A (relief for special tax sites) which provides for a new relief from land transaction tax for qualifying transactions of land within a special tax site.

The Aggregates Tax and Devolved Taxes Administration (Scotland) Act 2024 has received Royal Assent.