Chancellor John Healey is reportedly set to make online marketplaces collect VAT at source for sellers turning over more than £90,000, the Times reported. The Treasury has not confirmed it. Amazon puts the yield, earmarked for business rates cuts, at about £700m against the £1bn reported.
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UK ministers are consulting until 8 January 2027 on letting the Serious Fraud Office pay people who report economic crime. Lawyers quoted by City AM warn that a paid tipster who testifies would be cross-examined on the payout.
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The TUC says cutting the bank surcharge from 8% to 3% in 2023 cost the UK £6bn over three years. It wants a higher rate at the 28 October budget, so bank finance teams have a scenario to price while the Treasury has not stated its intentions.
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Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative government would end inheritance tax on family homes and let couples leave an extra £1m tax-free. For owner-operators planning succession, it stays an opposition promise until the party wins power and passes it into law.
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BasedApp said a breach exposed passport numbers and home addresses linked to customer wallets, without saying how many of its 100,000-plus users were hit. The leak gives Recap a live example in its fight against HMRC's draft power to demand crypto records without tribunal approval.
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About 45,000 Lifetime ISA savers paid withdrawal charges more than once in 2024/25, losing about £760 on average, HMRC figures obtained by Plum show. Savers can keep opening the old account, 25% charge included, until a Treasury replacement arrives on a date not yet set.
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Bolt faces an estimated £190m in unpaid UK VAT after the Supreme Court refused to hear its appeal over the tour operators' margin scheme. Uber's £1bn dispute over the same scheme had been waiting on Bolt's case, so the refusal reaches past one company's bill.
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Common Bond, owner of London studio Triyoga, suspended trading on 24 September with about 100 freelance teachers unpaid for their final weeks of classes. Their union's chair expects none of them to be paid, and the union is pursuing a test case for Uber-style worker rights.
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buildOne report1 publisher The AllRates dataset on Hugging Face holds 14.6 million rows in each publisher's own direction and label, so the collecting is finished while the inversion, rounding and missing-day rules stay in your code.
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The first year with a crypto box on the Self Assessment return shows a base narrow enough to fit in one room. That changes both what a rate rise would collect and what the 2027 exchange data feed is worth chasing.
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HMRC's crypto warning letters are up 25% to 81,000 and still largely guesswork. From 2027, CARF replaces the guessing with matched account data, and waiting stops being cheap.
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The platform holding 33.6% of direct-to-consumer assets is charging 0.35%, capped at £12.50 a month, to hold notes that HMRC has confined since 6 April to an ISA fewer than 150,000 savers appear to use.
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buildOne report1 publisher A .NET invoicing library built with Claude Code came with property tests, hand-calculated golden scenarios and green CI on three operating systems, all of it blind to the half-penny inputs where half-up and banker's rounding diverge.
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A forum seller wants $600 for what they say are 877,000 EV salary sacrifice driver records, and the 999-row sample published as proof holds up under structural testing in ways a fabricated file usually does not.
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