UK Tax News and HMRC Updates
Welcome to the Tax Rebate Services news hub. We track what's changing in UK tax and what it means for your money. You'll find HMRC tax code updates, Self Assessment deadlines, Budget announcements, rebate rule changes and live scam alerts. Every article is written in plain English for PAYE employees, self-employed workers, landlords, company directors and pensioners.
Electric and plug-in hybrid car drivers start paying a mileage charge at their first road tax renewal after April 2028, on top […]
Can HMRC take money from your bank account today? Yes, but only in narrow cases, under a power called Direct Recovery of […]
Salary sacrifice into a workplace pension still works, but from 6 April 2029 the National Insurance saving on it stops at £2,000 […]
HMRC repaid around £188m of excess tax taken from flexible pension withdrawals in the 2025 to 2026 financial year, City AM reported […]
HMRC has launched an improved Self Assessment registration service that puts a new filer’s Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR) online within 72 hours, […]
Spotting HMRC scams in 2026 means judging what a message asks for, not how it arrived. A genuine HMRC text won’t ask […]
The Self Assessment deadlines 2025/26 apply to income earned in the tax year that ended on 5 April 2026. Online returns, and […]
HMRC’s 5 October 2026 deadline has just passed for anyone who started a side hustle or other self-employment in the 2025 to […]
Eligible employers can take up to £10,500 off their employer National Insurance bill in the 2026 to 2027 tax year, unchanged from […]
Published: September 2026 | Reading time: approx. 8 minutes Business solar panels tax relief comes through capital allowances, not full expensing, because […]
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sign-up guidance says from September 2026 it starts enrolling anyone who ought to be on Making Tax […]
Lower-income savers have now received more than £300 million in Help to Save bonuses, according to HMRC figures published at the start […]
More than a million pensioners are paying higher rate tax or above in the 2026 to 2027 tax year, HMRC figures obtained […]
Sole traders and landlords who should be using Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax but have not registered face HMRC automatic […]
Tax regulations in the UK are moving toward full digitisation. Sole traders and landlords face major adjustments as the government’s Making Tax […]
In July 2026 HMRC added a section to its Making Tax Digital for Income Tax guidance headed “If you need to request […]
Final declaration vs self assessment comes down to one point: for any tax year you are inside Making Tax Digital for Income […]
HMRC’s property rental income statistics, published on 28 August 2026, show that 2.88 million unincorporated landlords declared £58.99 billion of rental income […]
HMRC’s estimate of the UK tax gap rose to 6.4%, or £59.2 billion, for the 2024 to 2025 tax year, according to […]
HMRC has pulled its guidance on labour supply chain tax fraud into a single Organised labour fraud collection, published on 10 June […]
Three months into the reformed Business Property Relief regime, HMRC figures show one change is behind most of the extra inheritance tax […]
HMRC said in June that it would begin contacting around one million low-paid workers from August about the low earner’s pension payment, […]
HMRC has said it will begin signing up sole traders and landlords who have not yet joined Making Tax Digital for Income […]
HMRC repaid £50,353,656.76 to savers overtaxed on flexible pension withdrawals between 1 April and 30 June 2026, according to figures published in […]
