More than 50,000 contract workers - including nurses, teachers, and small business owners - have been hit with backdated tax demands for as much as hundreds of thousands of pounds.

All those people who were assured they were acting legally now face losing their homes and businesses - and in some cases even their lives.

Former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith today calls on Boris Johnson's new government to immediately suspend the tax hunt and launch a review.

Shinichi Iida, a minister in the London embassy, said Japanese manufacturers are holding off on committing to the UK with new investments due to the uncertainty.

The sporty new Polestar 1 GT unveiled in Shanghai will form a halo for the new stand-alone Polestar brand being spun off by the Swedish car-maker which is owned by China’s Geely.

Steph Pike, 30, a solicitor (pictured) tells us about much time she spends fighting the £70,000 cladding repair bill she faces and helping others.

We have pressured the Government to investigate a string of potential blunders, after he raised the alarm over women receiving zero or low payouts.

When 87-year-old widow Margaret walked away from her bank after trying to withdraw the last of her savings, the manager Melanie Egerton (pictured) started to realise something was wrong.

Nicola Hawkins bought her Romford flat in 2022 for £215,000 and was initially told that the service charges were £600 a year.

Elaine Burnett died aged 68 the day after the Department for Work and Pensions rang up to admit it had wrongly refused her a state pension for the past two years.

Admiral says it is refunding its customers in recognition of the fact that there have been fewer cars on the road during the lockdown and it expects this to result in fewer claims.

We continue to hear complaints from readers about being fobbed off and given misleading information by DWP staff over state pension delays.

In one case, the Department for Work and Pensions was repeatedly asked to review a retired teacher's £10 a week state pension from 2017 onward.

Just a few years ago the Co-op came to the edge of disaster following a period where its banking arm ran into dire financial difficulties and the group was riddled with boardroom dysfunction.

Alan Sugar, a long-time Labour supporter, is almost lost for words when he thinks of Jeremy Corbyn moving into No 10.

It's 50 years since Britain's first cash machine was unveiled by Barclays in Enfield, North London, on June 27, 1967.Since then, the number of ATMs around the world has rocketed.

Jo Darbyshire (pictured) faced a five-figure sum to buy the freehold of her house - in a nightmarish negotiation that lasted a decade.

Some 1,900 women so far are confirmed to have lost out on state pension in a scandal we uncovered. Blunders were detected in one in four of the 7,200 claims dealt with to date by the DWP.

In our latest Start-up Secrets, Pall-ex founder and TV favourite Hilary Devey reveals how her father losing it all was her biggest inspiration - and why she's backing staying in the EU.

This week sees the start of the European Men's Hockey Championships and one man that will be there is GB vice-captain David Ames.

After hearing from the DWP, many members of the committee remained concerned that the human cost of this organisational disaster still wasn't fully appreciated, says SNP MP Peter Grant,

As many as 1.3 million families missed out on claiming retirement benefits they were entitled to last year, according to official statistics.

A new report hints that the installation of Intelligent Speed Assistance technology would be straightforward, with experts claiming they are simple and cheap for car makers to fit.

We continue to hear complaints from readers about being fobbed off and given misleading information by DWP staff over state pension delays.

Scambaiters do their best to occupy as much of a fraudster's time as possible. While many relish the thought of keeping criminals away from victims, some also love the thrill of the chase.

It’s aimed at those travelling, living and working abroad to give them more flexibility when spending and sending money and to lower their overall costs.

A Jaguar Land Rover spokesman said it has been forced to 'adjusted' production schedules due to a 'temporary' supply problem, adding it is working to 'minimise the impact on customers'.

People from all walks of life will tell us their spending habits over the course of a typical month and we will give them expert advice about what they can do to achieve a brighter financial future.

Up to 140,000 British homeowners may have been trapped paying over the odds for their mortgages after the Treasury shelved plans to help them six years ago, it has emerged.

The Government is being pressed not to 'add insult to injury' by landing women with unfair tax bills. Denyse Vallender, pictured with husband David, was handed £21,700 due to Government bungling.

Former pensions minister Steve Webb answered readers' questions in a live web chat today. He was joined by a panel of experts from The Pensions Advisory Team. Read all their replies here.

Untold sums of top-ups cash could be sitting in Government coffers, instead of being refunded. Kathryn Tattum checked with Government staff first, before paying £3,300 in May last year.

This is Money's Richard Browning died suddenly last weekend aged 57, this is a tribute to our wonderful friend.

Some who paid the married women's stamp or claimed child benefit over the past few decades have not had this taken into account when their state pensions came to be calculated.

The Cambridge pharmaceuticals giant confirmed the £263m facility will be set up near Dublin, rather than in Macclesfield. Some 100 jobs will be created.

Since 2022, I've had the privilege of helping our readers fight for financial justice in Crane on the Case, which is now on its 100th column. These are my six tips for getting YOUR problems sorted.

The figures, from the Bank of England, were seized on by the ‘Remain’ camp as evidence investors are increasingly worried about a Brexit.

MPs condemned the underpaid state pension scandal as a 'shameful shambles' last week, and we published new cases of DWP payment chaos. ROS ALTMANN explains how to tix the crisis here.

Wix has launched ‘one stop shop’ Ascend, which cuts out the need for entrepreneurs to hire expensive website designers and boasts 20 tools to help market websites more easily.

It is not clear to what extent the banks have moved due to staffing issues and a wave of customers requesting mortgage holidays, or a concern house prices could fall.

Although the average Brit saves £150 a month, some 20 per cent said they did not manage to save a penny, according to a survey by Santander UK.

Money Mail can reveal that the bank is in talks to cut the headline interest rate on its 123 current account from 3% to 2%. The move could cost customers as much as £200 a year.

Only the top 10% of the population stay healthy to their early 70s. Therefore, social policy needs to recognise that the majority of the population are not well by their mid-60s, says Lady Altmann.

In a speech at the Scottish Economics Conference in Edinburgh, he branded cryptocurrencies a failure – a lottery that exhibits the classic hallmarks of bubbles that attract 'fools'.

Although car park operators are using increasingly sinister tactics to ensure parking fines are paid, victims can hit back. About half of fines challenged are overturned.

I have since stood on the rooftop with M&S executives and have witnessed personally the ugly hodgepodge of buildings which make up the complex.

Around three quarters of self-employed borrowers believe it's harder to get a mortgage because of their employment status. This is Money is campaigning for this to change.

Before you shell out thousands on a luxury shopping trip to New York, you do realise you can get the same stuff down the road for peanuts and make a weekend of it? asks our writer.

I'm enrolled in a workplace pension, and this tax year I will earn over £110k and I will lose part of my tax-free allowance. Will paying £11k as an additional contribution to my pension offset any...

Even before it was off the design board, the dramatic face of the new Vantage became the inspiration for the DB10 – of which only ten were made for use in the Bond movie Spectre.

Many budding enterprises have been funded by the bank of mum and dad - and there's nothing wrong with that. This isn't to say that you shouldn't seek to protect your investment - it is business after...

This week saw the launch of new book - Never Go Broke: How To Make Money Out Of Just About Anything, co-written by This is Money personal finance editor Lee Boyce.

Penny Loseby, 71, pictured below with husband Paul, missed out on £16,000 over seven years. When she tried to dispute her low payments, she was ignored or fobbed off on repeated occasions.

Football transfer deadline day. It conjures images of Harry Redknapp giving interviews out of a car window as he leaves a stadium and TV presenters talking a mile-a-minute as rumours swirl.

A This is Money probe exclusively revealed many National Insurance records are riddled with holes. Liberal Democrat MP Wendy Chamberlain, pictured, demanded answers in Parliament.

Should you save cash and accept low interest rates, or invest and take the risk that you could lose money?

This is Money's top 50 - updated - money-saving tips may appear light-hearted but are deadly serious.

At present, there is no rule on how many consecutive contactless payments can be made before you must input your PIN, but any purchase over £30 does require you to do so.

There are many legal ways to dodge the dreaded 40 per cent 'death tax' if you want to pass on the maximum sum possible and are prepared to plan ahead.