Issues
HMRC says you owe tax on your bank interest or dividends—often for years you never had to think about. A plain-English guide to why this is happening, the date-sensitive allowances HMRC and taxpayers keep getting wrong, and how to challenge a P800, a Simple Assessment or an ISA ruling.
Issues
An unexpected HMRC pension tax charge has landed—an annual allowance charge, an unauthorised payments charge, an old lifetime allowance charge, or refused contribution relief. A plain-English guide: how each charge works, who is assessed, and the real grounds of challenge.
Issues
Had an HMRC letter clawing back job expenses, taxing a company car or benefit, or taxing part of your redundancy payment? A plain-English guide for employees: why the deduction rules are so strict, what you can really claim, and how to challenge an assessment or penalty.
Issues
Had an HMRC letter about rental income—a Let Property Campaign nudge, a discovery assessment, or an enquiry into your expenses? A plain-English guide for accidental landlords: how rental tax really works, the mortgage-interest shock, and how to challenge an assessment or penalty.
Issues
Swapping, spending or gifting crypto can trigger a tax bill even if you never withdrew cash. A plain-English guide to what HMRC taxes, how to disclose, and how to challenge its figures.
Cases
If HMRC says your trust loan was really your salary, Rangers is the case that explains why 'it was only a loan' usually fails. Here is what the Supreme Court actually decided about redirected earnings—and the narrow boundary the courts have since drawn around it.
Issues
Had a letter about your overseas accounts, or have undisclosed offshore income? The 200% penalty is a worst-case maximum, not your bill. How disclosure works, what the certificate of tax position really means, and how offshore penalties can be challenged.
Issues
HMRC sent you a letter about your online sales, and the headlines are alarming. Here's what the new platform-reporting rules actually mean—and why most people who get one of these letters owe nothing at all.
Issues
Used a contractor or employee loan scheme and now facing HMRC, the loan charge, an APN or a follower notice? Here is what each bill means, what you can and cannot appeal, and how the new 2025-26 settlement opportunity may change your options.
Issues
HMRC has cancelled your gross payment status, raised a Regulation 13 determination, or stacked up CIS300 penalties—and 'this will ruin my business' is the one argument the Supreme Court has already rejected. Which of three appellants you are, and the 30-day clock that has already started.
Issues
HMRC has refused or withdrawn your EIS or SEIS relief. The income tax relief is clawed back, a deferred gain springs back to life, and the promoter has gone quiet. Why advance assurance is not binding, the wrong-form trap, the conditions HMRC fights, and what to do in your 30 days.
Issues
HMRC says you owe thousands for a tax charge you've never heard of. Here's what HICBC is, how it's calculated, and what you can do about it.