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Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

Last year British taxpayers spent 800 years waiting to speak to HMRC. This is the price of a world digitised on the cheap, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

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HMRC leaves callers on hold ‘for 800 years’, says spending watchdog

Report suggests time taxpayers spent on phone waiting to speak to adviser has more than doubled

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Nadhim Zahawi admits he paid nearly £5m to HMRC after ‘careless mistake’

Tory former minister says he made error over tax paid on sales of YouGov shares after previously saying he was being ‘smeared’

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Zahawi: I’m sorry for not being more explicit over tax settlement declaration

The outgoing MP for Stratford-on-Avon said the total payment he made to HMRC was ‘just shy of £5 million’.

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The digital tax era and its impact on data

A catalyst for positive change in data management, promoting financial health and ultimately business survival.

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Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

Stephen Timms says DWP letting unpaid carers incur ‘enormous accidental overpayments’

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UK tax: ‘HMRC harassed me for money I had paid weeks earlier’

Simon Hattenstone was sent letters demanding tax he didn’t owe. Then he found other people were in the same situation

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Judges reject HMRC appeal and rule firm’s marshmallows are not sweets

Innovative Bites Ltd wins case brought by UK tax authority after its ‘mega’ product deemed to be an ‘ingredient’

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Was it Angela Rayner who was fined millions by HMRC? No, that was a Tory

The man who reported Labour’s deputy to the police can’t even say what he was complaining about. Meanwhile, there’s no getting away from the Conservatives’ scandals, writes Zoe Williams

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Tory ‘attack dog’ reheats failed ploy used against Starmer to go for Rayner

MP Richard Holden, who is behind re-opening of inquiry into Labour deputy leader, also sparked Covid-era beer and curry furore involving the leader

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‘Petrified’ non-doms poised to flee UK over Labour’s tax plans, say experts

Prospect of party closing Tory ‘loopholes’ if elected prompts some wealthy individuals to explore a move overseas

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The Guardian view on Labour and the tax gap: a £5bn question for a coterie of insiders

Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

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What small businesses really need to know about the ‘side hustle’ tax

How will London’s army of makers be affected by HMRC’s so-called side hustle tax?

Evening Standard

Labour creates tax panel to help it clamp down on avoiders

Group will advise on how to modernise HMRC after shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reveals plan for £5bn crackdown

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The Tories let tax dodgers go unchecked. Labour won’t put up with it

By cracking down on tax avoiders and closing non-dom loopholes, Rachel Reeves will help revive UK public services, says Labour MP Margaret Hodge

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How realistic is Labour’s aspiration to cut tax gap by £5bn?

All agree that billions are missing from HMRC coffers but Rachel Reeves may not be looking for it in the right places

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Closing the UK’s tax gap is ‘not rocket science’, says Rachel Reeves

Shadow chancellor says Labour would ‘ramp up’ number of HMRC staff to close gap between what is owed and paid

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No change to UK’s arms exports to Israel but position kept under review, says David Cameron – as it happened

UK foreign secretary also defended his meeting with Donald Trump during a press conference in Washington

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Labour plans £5bn crackdown on tax avoiders to close non-dom spending gap

Funding needed after Tories adopted Labour policy to pay for tax cuts will be used for school breakfast clubs and NHS

Evening Standard

New ISA rules: When do they come into force and what has changed?

The new rules include a new type of ISA and an increase to the minimum age to open an adult Cash ISA

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What to declutter in April to start the new season with a clean slate

Get into the spring clean spirit with an April decluttering session

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Rayner denies wrongdoing over council house sale amid police review

Labour deputy leader says she can provide tax advice given at time after Tory complaint to Manchester force

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HMRC’s bill looks like a scam, but it’s impossible to check

I can’t find a way to sort out an overdue tax demand, for a sum I don’t think I owe, with a mystery telephone number

Evening Standard

OPINION - Relief, confusion and derision as HMRC drops plan to shut tax helpline for six months of the year

Let me tell you something about the British people: you can cut their local government services to the bone, send NHS waiting lists soaring, even let prisoners out early to ease overcrowding. But don't you dare close down HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) telephone helpline for parts of the year. This we…

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HMRC halts plan to close tax helpline for six months a year

Tax office makes swift U-turn after outcry over self-assessment, VAT and PAYE phone services

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