Legal News

Tax avoidance motive can affect nature of transactions (Clavis Liberty 1 LP v HMRC)

Published on: 25 April 2016
Published by a LexisNexis Tax expert

Table of contents

  • Original News
  • What happened in this case?
  • Why it matters?

Article summary

Tax analysis: The First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) has dismissed the taxpayer’s appeal in respect of a claim for a trading loss that arose as part of a tax avoidance scheme. The FTT gave consideration to the application of the Ramsay doctrine and the question of whether the existence of a tax avoidance motive can convert what is, on all other measures, a trade into something that is not a trade.

Popular documents