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Latest Tax Practice Notes
Tax—consolidated HMRC Manuals trackerThis Practice Note is a consolidated version of the HMRC Manuals tracker that appears each week in the Tax weekly...
Taxation in corporate insolvency—the principal issues in outlineTaxation and insolvencyThere are relatively few specific rules governing the UK...
Tax—case trackerThis tracker displays the status and most recent developments of key tax cases in the UK Upper Tribunal (UT), the Upper Tribunal for...
Taxation of general partnershipsThis Practice Note is about the tax treatment of general partnerships. Such a partnership is not taxable in its own...
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Latest Tax Precedents
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Clearance letter—TCGA 1992, ss 138 and 139(5), ITA 2007, s 701 and CTA 2010, s 748Stop Press: Clauses 37 and 38 of the Finance Bill (as introduced)...
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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?
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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
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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
Acquisition
A supply of goods, or a transaction treated as a supply of goods, which involves the removal of goods from one EU member state to another.
Major interest
A major interest is a freehold or leasehold estate. A major interest for these purposes does not include a lease with a term of seven years or less. At Budget 2018, the government amended the definition of major interest to confirm that a major interest includes an undivided share in a major interest in a dwelling. This has effect from 29 October 2018, although HMRC is of the view that the legislation as drafted before this amendment enabled them to tax all purchases of undivided shares in land.
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.
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