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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...
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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...
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Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI)—the Common Reporting Standard: a summaryFORTHCOMING CHANGES: The UK is due to implement the OECD’s...
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2% SDLT surcharge for non-residentsSince 1 April 2021, non-UK residents that buy residential property in England and Northern Ireland pay a 2%...
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The construction industry scheme in practiceIn practice, a lawyer is likely to come across the construction industry scheme (CIS) rules when...
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Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...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...
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Stamp duty adjudication letterFORTHCOMING CHANGE relating to the modernisation of stamp taxes on shares framework: Following the call for evidence in...
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) enables a borrower to apply for and...
What are capital allowances and capital expenditure?What are capital allowances?Capital allowances are the means by which tax relief is given for some...
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 implicationsThis Practice Note is about the VAT treatment of residential service charges.Service charges payable to...
Commercial service charges—VAT implicationsThis Practice Note is about the VAT treatment of non-residential service charges. General positionService...
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 expensesAll companies within the charge to corporation tax can deduct qualifying charitable...
Amortisation of intangible fixed assetsWhere a company acquires (or otherwise incurs capitalised expenditure upon) an intangible fixed asset that...
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 capitalThis Practice Note is about the meaning of a reorganisation for tax purposes, and the tax treatment...
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 disbursementsFor VAT purposes, an intermediary is a person who makes arrangements for, or facilitates, a...
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...
Taxation of offshore funds—what is an offshore fund?Background to the offshore funds rulesSpecific tax legislation dealing with offshore funds was...
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A document setting out information on the economy and outlining the government's future tax plans. It is presented to the House of Commons each autumn by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In addition to the Spring Statement, it is one of the most important fiscal events in the tax year.
Generally, for the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts 2010 (CTA 2010) a company has a permanent establishment in a territory if, and only if, (1) it has a fixed place of business there through which the business of the company is wholly or partly carried on, or (2) an agent acting on behalf of the company has and habitually exercises there authority to do business on behalf of the company (CTA 2010, s 1141).
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;