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Check if you qualify for a refund of Income Tax and National Insurance contributions paid, or a waiver of payments being made, in settlement of disguised remuneration scheme use.
Find out about a tax avoidance scheme used by companies to reduce their tax liability.
Find out about non-compliant umbrella companies using employment agencies to sell their tax avoidance schemes.
Find out which form to use in different circumstances.
Find out about claims featuring General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provisions used to incorrectly reduce Corporation Tax liability or claim repayments of tax already paid, or both.
How to avoid being involved in tax avoidance schemes, if you are moved between umbrella companies as an agency worker or contractor.
Use this factsheet to find out information about penalties for careless inaccuracies in a return or any other document.
Check the availability and any issues affecting the Confirm an applicant has done a tax check service.
HMRC can tax loans paid to contractors or freelance workers through trusts or umbrella companies, just like normal income.
On 5 July 2017 The Supreme Court released their unanimous decision about disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes used by Rangers Football Club.
Information about the loan charge on disguised remuneration schemes which came into force on 5 April 2019.
How to make sure you take reasonable care if you need to send tax returns and other documents to HMRC, and what happens if you do not.
Find out about penalties you may have to pay if HMRC have sent you a follower notice and you have not taken corrective action on time.
When HMRC will issue a joint and several liability notice to someone connected to a company that has received a tax avoidance or tax evasion penalty and the company has started, or is likely to start, insolvency.
Information about tax avoidance schemes that try to avoid an Income Tax charge on distributions when winding up a company.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against misleading advertising of a Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) avoidance scheme by promoter, Fiducia Wealth and Tax.
Information about a tax avoidance scheme that tries to disguise income and other taxable profits as loans or fiduciary receipts by using a remuneration trust.
This factsheet is about penalties we may charge if your scheme does not meet the requirements for tax advantaged status.
Use the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) Advisory Panel opinion to help you recognise when arrangements may be abusive tax arrangements.
This Tax Information and Impact Note is about UK's obligations under European Union (EU) law to implement UK's automatic exchange of information agreements.
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