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Tax-avoiding Tory peer Lord Ashcroft is rarely out of the news at the moment.

Don’t expect next week’s Budget to contain any great surprises.

HMRC has reissued its guidance to expats claiming residency abroad.

Conservatives to let councils offer business rates discounts and will replace
regional development agencies with local enterprise partnerships

Conservatives to let councils offer business rates discounts and will replace
regional development agencies with local enterprise partnerships

The Treasury gives an early Budget signal that venture capital trust tax
breaks for private investors will remain

Businesses may have to rethink their overseas expansion plans after the
Treasury signalled it would accelerate plans to reform the way that it taxes
the profits earned by companies’ foreign branches.

More than 57,000 small businesses have been hit with higher tax bills after
the taxman quietly increased the amount of VAT they have to pay under a flat
rate scheme.

The Treasury has finally struck a deal to exclude Britain’s stockbrokers from
the bonus tax, ending three months of uncertainty for the sector.