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This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) the Supreme Court’s decision in HMRC v Dolphin Drilling, (2) confirmation that the PISCES...
The Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed Dolphin Drilling’s appeal, ruling that the hire cap on tax deductions should apply to the Borgsten Dolphin...
Tax analysis: In Smart v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) dismissed the taxpayer’s appeal against assessments and a closure notice charging...
Tax analysis: In BGC Services Holdings LLP v HMRC, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) refused HMRC permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal (UT) against...
Tax analysis: In Osmond and Allen v HMRC, the Upper Tribunal (UT) allowed the taxpayers’ appeal that the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) erred in law in...
Latest Tax Practice Notes
Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI)—the Common Reporting Standard: a summaryFORTHCOMING CHANGES: The UK is due to implement the OECD’s...
VAT treatment of management charges and other intra-group paymentsWhat are management charges?Management charges generally refer to the position where...
2% SDLT surcharge for non-residentsSince 1 April 2021, non-UK residents that buy residential property in England and Northern Ireland pay a 2%...
Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI) in the UK—pension schemesFORTHCOMING CHANGES: The UK is due to implement the OECD’s Cryptoasset Reporting...
The construction industry scheme in practiceIn practice, a lawyer is likely to come across the construction industry scheme (CIS) rules when...
Latest Tax Precedents
2% SDLT surcharge for non-residents—training materialsThese Training Materials cover the 2% stamp duty land tax (SDLT) surcharge that applies from 1...
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Unsecured employee loan agreement—company and employee—short-formThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert name of employee borrower], of...
Anti-tax evasion facilitation clause—pro-customer1Anti-tax evasion facilitation1.1For the purposes of this clause 1:1.1.1the expressions ‘Associated...
Stamp duty adjudication letterFORTHCOMING CHANGE relating to the modernisation of stamp taxes on shares framework: Following the call for evidence in...
Latest Tax Q&As
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VAT treatment of damages and compensation payments
VAT treatment of damages and compensation paymentsA damages or compensation payment may attract VAT. This depends on exactly what the payment is for....
The double taxation treaty passport scheme (DTTP scheme)
The double taxation treaty passport scheme (DTTP scheme)The double taxation treaty passport scheme (DTTP scheme) enables a borrower to apply for and...
What are capital allowances and capital expenditure?
What are capital allowances and capital expenditure?What are capital allowances?Capital allowances are the means by which tax relief is given for some...
If the words ‘exclusive of VAT’ are omitted from the definition of annual rent, but there is a VAT clause stating: ‘Where this lease requires the tenant to pay or provide any amount in respect of a VAT supply to the tenant...that amount will be deemed to be exclusive of VAT...and the tenant shall pay a sum equal to that VAT’, will this be sufficient to charge the tenant VAT? Is there any case law in this area?
Direct tax treatment of damages and compensation payments
Direct tax treatment of damages and compensation paymentsWhere a dispute is brought to an end by a payment of damages or compensation, whether under a...
Residential service charges—VAT implications
Residential service charges—VAT implicationsThis Practice Note is about the VAT treatment of residential service charges.Service charges payable to...
Commercial service charges—VAT implications
Commercial service charges—VAT implicationsThis Practice Note is about the VAT treatment of non-residential service charges. General positionService...
Taxation of UK LLPs
Taxation of UK LLPsA UK limited liability partnership (LLP) is a body corporate for company law purposes, but is generally taxed as though it were a...
Qualifying charitable donations and excess management expenses
Qualifying charitable donations and excess management expensesAll companies within the charge to corporation tax can deduct qualifying charitable...
Amortisation of intangible fixed assets
Amortisation of intangible fixed assetsWhere a company acquires (or otherwise incurs capitalised expenditure upon) an intangible fixed asset that...
The Budget and Finance Bill process
The Budget and Finance Bill processThe Budget is a Parliamentary event at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes important announcements relating...
Tax treatment of reorganisations of share capital
Tax treatment of reorganisations of share capitalThis Practice Note is about the meaning of a reorganisation for tax purposes, and the tax treatment...
Capital gains—intra-group asset transfers
Capital gains—intra-group asset transfersCompanies which form a group for capital gains purposes are able to transfer assets to one another free of...
VAT treatment of intermediaries, agents and disbursements
VAT treatment of intermediaries, agents and disbursementsFor VAT purposes, an intermediary is a person who makes arrangements for, or facilitates, a...
Taxation of private equity funds—the investors
How are investors in a private equity fund taxed on their share of the profits?This Practice Note sets out how the investors in a typical UK private...
Tax and offshore funds—what is an offshore fund?
Taxation of offshore funds—what is an offshore fund?Background to the offshore funds rulesSpecific tax legislation dealing with offshore funds was...
Partnerships and capital gains
Partnerships and capital gainsThis Practice Note is about the capital gains tax and corporation tax on chargeable gains treatment of UK general...
Tax considerations on a loan agreement—the tax gross up clause
Tax considerations on a loan agreement—the tax gross up clauseIt is standard market practice for loan agreements (also known as facility agreements),...
Associated legal terms
Accounting period
A company's tax assessments are made by reference to its accounting periods, which are usually the successive periods for which the company makes up its accounts.
Repo
An arrangement which involves the sale of securities and the subsequent purchase of those or similar securities and which equates, in substance, to a transaction for the lending of money at interest from or to a company with the securities which were sold as collateral for the loan.
Retail schemes
A method which enables a retailer to determine the proportion of his taxable retail sales for all or part of a prescribed accounting period that is chargeable to tax at a non-zero rate.
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