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Three and a half million taxpayers will get tax refunds averaging £380 from next week, while another 1.6 million will be asked to repay a typical £540 as they've underpaid.
11 May 2012
Taxpayers have to wait almost three times longer to contact HM Revenue & Customs than they did two years ago, it has been revealed.
2 May 2012
Almost 12,000 taxpayers have been wrongly threatened with a penalty for not submitting a self-assessment return by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), despite telling the department they weren't self-employed.
27 April 2012
Chancellor George Osborne has partly reversed a planned cut in child benefit, meaning more families will be entitled to help than was originally proposed, though anomalies still exist and confusion still reigns.
22 March 2012
Hundreds of thousands of benefits recipients will see a dramatic fall or even an end to their tax credits under a raft of reforms next month.
13 March 2012
About a million letters with wrong information on child tax credits entitlement have been sent out by tax officials.
9 March 2012
Up to 17,000 taxpayers who filed a self assessment return on time have been threatened with a £100 fine for supposedly submitting late.
29 February 2012
Taxpayers have been given longer to avoid a £100 fine for filing their self assessment return late, because of a strike by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) staff.
26 January 2012
House sales fell last year to one of the lowest totals recorded, figures from HM Revenue and Customs showed this week.
25 January 2012
Almost a million taxpayers risk a £100 fine for filing their self assessment tax return late, so act soon.
10 January 2012
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