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London council taken completely offline and locals can’t pay tax bills

Londoners were left unable to apply for housing benefits or pay council tax bills after a council website crashed for two days. The Tower Hamlets Council website has been down for two... Read more »
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North London council tax set to rise as huge cuts made to services

North London council tax is set to go up again while services face millions of pounds of cuts – including possible job losses and changes to local bus routes. Brent Council’s initial... Read more »
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Premier League transfer tax, fan votes, no Super League: 8 things learnt from government review

After hearing more than 100 hours of evidence from stakeholders across all levels of football, Tracey Crouch’s fan-led review into the game’s governance has been published and the former sports minister has... Read more »
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Pandora papers news live: Rishi Sunak says London’s tax reputation ‘not shameful’ amid huge global leak

‘Pandora Papers’: Financial secrets of world leaders revealed in data leak Rishi Sunak has said HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will probe the information revealed by so-called “Pandora papers” reports after a... Read more »
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Lewisham council holding £8.7million in overpaid council tax – South London News

By Grainne Cuffe, Local Democracy Reporter Lewisham council is sitting on a pot of more than £8.7million of overpaid council tax. The council initially refused to release the figures, but handed them over after... Read more »
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Waltham Forest Echo | Why I’m no longer paying my full council tax

The new energy-from-waste (EFW) incinerator in Edmonton will generate electricity as well as burn waste from seven London boroughs Local resident Sarah Eastwood is making a monetary protest against the Edmonton Incinerator... Read more »
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South east London Council Tax challenges prove successful

Greenwich residents are among the most successful in England and Wales at challenging their council tax bills – as hundreds of people in other south east London boroughs join them as well.... Read more »
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South London property developer agrees to hand over £2million in assets to settle claim over fraud, tax evasion and money laundering claims and growing cannabis

London based property developer Richard Leahy has agreed to hand over assets worth almost £2 million to settle a civil recovery claim based on alleged involvement in cannabis cultivation, money laundering and... Read more »
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South London businesses named and shamed by HMRC for unpaid tax

Several south London businesses and people have been named on the federal government’s checklist of tax defaulters. HMRC has revealed the main points of these businesses given monetary penalties for failing to... Read more »
London news: Sadiq Khan eyes tax raid in order to prop up crippled TfL network | UK | News

London news: Sadiq Khan eyes tax raid in order to prop up crippled TfL network | UK | News

TfL is predicted to lose a fifth of its regular passenger numbers, specialists have warned, with the Mayor now set to goal a tax rise in order to fill the loss. With... Read more »