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Latest Tax News
This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) HMRC’s confirmation as to when the decrease in quarterly instalment-related interest rates...
Tax analysis: In Masters v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) found that withdrawals from a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) made by a...
Law360, London: Australia's top court sided with Pepsi in a long-running tax dispute on 13 August 2025, holding that the beverage giant's soft drink...
This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) analysis of the Upper Tribunal’s decision in Elphysic Ltd v HMRC regarding deregistration...
Tax analysis: In Clear Pay Payroll Ltd v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) allowed the taxpayer’s hardship application because it was satisfied...
Latest Tax Practice Notes
CFC rules—chapter 5 non-trade finance gatewayThis Practice Note deals with the controlled foreign company (CFC) rules that apply for accounting...
Impact of share sales on tax groupingsCompanies can be treated as forming groups for many different tax purposes. The usual principle behind group...
Employment-related securities, securities options and capital gains taxEmployment-related securities and securities optionsThe definition of an...
Insured M&A transactions—a tax lawyer's guideThis Practice Note is about the practical issues that a tax lawyer should consider when advising on an...
How are individuals taxed on distributions received from companies?This Practice Note explains the rules that apply to distributions made to UK...
Latest Tax Precedents
Witness statement—genericFiled on behalf of the [insert party eg [Claimant OR Appellant] or [Defendant OR Respondents]]Number of witness statement:...
Settlement agreement (employment) (short form)STOP PRESS: The Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (Commencement No 6) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/616 came...
Settlement agreement (employment)STOP PRESS: The Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 (Commencement No 6) Regulations 2025, SI 2025/616 came into force on 1...
Election—capital allowances apportionment on grant of lease—CAA 2001, s 199[Date][Grantor's name and Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR)][Grantee's name...
Election letter—reallocation of gain or loss to another member of a group—TCGA 1992, s 171AHM Revenue and Customs[insert address][insert date]Election...
Latest Tax Q&As
Featured Tax content
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
Group relief
This relief enables one company (the surrendering company) to surrender its current trading losses, capital allowances, non-trading deficits on loan relationships, excess management expenses, excess property business losses, excess non-trading losses on intangible fixed assets and excess charges on income, to another company (the claimant company), provided that both companies are in the same group throughout the relevant and respective accounting period(s).
Supply of services
Anything done for a consideration which is not a supply of goods is a supply of services, unless it is specifically treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services. VAT is charged on a supply of services.
Transfer pricing
A regime which requires a business enterprise to calculate its taxable profits arising from transactions with related persons by reference to an arm's length result.
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