The number of winding-up petitions issued by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has slumped by more than a third in the past year, according to figures released on Monday, with experts claiming the taxman is increasingly choosing to seize goods from companies instead.

The UK's great recession was considerably greater than previously thought and the recovery's momentum is looking weaker, according to official figures released yesterday.

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Q. My mother died two years ago leaving an estate, but no will. I have one sibling, who lives and works at a house on her property in Wiltshire, which is valued at about £300,000. Since my mother died, my brother has been repaying an interest-only mortgage on the property, which I offered to pay off, but which my brother refused to accept. There are two small patches of land, apart from the house, which have been registered in my brother's sole name at the Land Registry in Weymouth. As far as I know, the house has not been re-registered.

Tech pioneer says companies should be taxed on all of their revenues, under a system similar to income tax

The former tax executive criticised for making "sweetheart deals" with multinational companies has been appointed as a specialist adviser for a leading accountancy firm.

A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000 emails that expose an “immoral” tax avoidance scheme used by his former employer, that has “cheated” British taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of pounds.

Internet giants on back foot after shopping giant admitted it receives more in government grants than it pays in UK corporate tax

Some 5.5 million people overpaid or underpaid tax last year, HM Revenue & Customs has admitted. It means they will be clawing back up to £1bn from unsuspecting taxpayers for unpaid tax in the 2012-13 financial year.

But judge tells UK Uncut that deal was 'not a glorious episode in the history of the Revenue'

A “sweetheart” tax deal which saved Goldman Sachs millions of pounds was agreed by HMRC to save Chancellor George Osborne from “major embarrassment”, a court has heard.

World's largest online retailer under renewed pressure to pay corporation tax in Britain

Wigan Athletic have become the second Premier League football club to be exposed for advertising a lengthy internship with no salary.