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Latest Tax News
This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) News Analysis on the new measures contained in Finance Bill 2026 (FB 2026) to tackle the...
Tax analysis: Natasha Kaye, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, highlights the key features and practical considerations of the new stamp duty...
Tax analysis: The Final Report of the independent review of the Loan Charge, together with the government’s response to the Final Report, were both...
Tax analysis: The government is legislating in Finance Bill 2026 for new measures to tackle the promotion of marketed tax avoidance schemes. Abigail...
Tax analysis: In Sehgal v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) allowed the taxpayers’ appeal, finding that a lease of a basement storage unit,...
Latest Tax Practice Notes
What is an employee benefit trust?The EBT as a trustAn employee benefit trust (EBT) is a form of trust. A trust refers to the legal relationship...
Image rights—protection, exploitation and taxationFORTHCOMING CHANGE: it was announced at Budget 2025 that the government will legislate in Finance...
Salary sacrifice—basic principlesFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of Budget 2025, it was announced that from April 2029, only the...
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...
Bank levyThis Practice Note explains how the bank levy currently applies and the re-scoping of the bank levy in 2021. This Practice Note has been...
Latest Tax Precedents
HMRC salary sacrifice clearance letterFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of Budget 2025, it was announced that from April 2029, only...
Declaration of trust for the transfer of sharesFORTHCOMING CHANGE: Following a call for evidence in 2020, the resulting outcome published in 2021,...
Acknowledgment of changes to terms and conditions of employment to implement salary sacrificesFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of...
Salary sacrifice scheme—employee FAQsFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 26 November 2025, as part of Budget 2025, it was announced that from April 2029, only the...
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) clauses for an agreement for lease1Construction Industry Scheme—for use where the landlord’s contribution is a...
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
Completion
means completion of this agreement in accordance with clause[s] [insert number of the clause(s) dealing with completion of the agreement];
Output tax
The VAT liability that falls on a taxable person as a result of supplies of goods and services, events treated as supplies of goods and services, supplies of goods acquired from another EU member state, or the reverse charge.
Tax or Taxation
means all forms of taxation whenever created or imposed and whether of the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, includes income tax, capital gains tax, corporation tax, advance corporation tax, stamp duty, stamp duty land tax, stamp duty reserve tax, withholding tax, rates, value added tax, sales tax, customs and excise duties, inheritance tax, national insurance contributions and any other taxes, levies, contributions, duties or imposts similar to, replaced by or replacing any of them and all penalties, charges, fines and interest included in or relating to any tax assessment therefor, regardless of to whom any such taxes, penalties, charges and fines are, and any interest is, directly or indirectly chargeable or attributable or primarily chargeable or attributable;
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