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Content written by the author of the leading textbook in this area and includes several sector specific Practice Notes. It links directly to Tolley’s Orange Tax Handbook, Tax Journal and key text De Voil.
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Excellent practical content for loans, derivatives and debt capital markets. The content links directly to Tolley’s Yellow Tax Handbook, Simon’s Taxes, Tolley annuals, Tax Journal and key text Ghosh Johnson and Miller.
Taxes management and litigation
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Latest Tax News
This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) new guidance on remote hearings in the First-tier Tax Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal (Tax...
Tax analysis: In WWM (Harrogate) LLP v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) decided that a partner in an LLP had no goodwill which he could...
Tax analysis: In MyPay Limited v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) dismissed an umbrella company’s appeals against PAYE determinations and NICs...
Tax analysis: In Lifeplus, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) allowed the taxpayer’s appeal against HMRC’s Schedule 36 information notice which...
Restructuring & Insolvency Analysis: This decision confirms that directors who implement aggressive tax avoidance arrangements for their own benefit...
Latest Tax Practice Notes
This Practice Note is a consolidated version of the HMRC Manuals tracker that appears each week in the Tax weekly highlights, organised by HMRC Manual...
When a company that is resident outside the UK starts doing business in the UK, it will want to know whether and to what extent the activities of that...
Sukuk (singular form: ‘sakk’) is a type of Shari’a financing arrangement also referred to as Islamic bonds or certificates. For more information, see...
This tracker displays the status and most recent developments of key tax cases in the UK Upper Tribunal (UT), the Upper Tribunal for Scotland, the...
FORTHCOMING CHANGE: it was announced at Budget 2025 that the government will legislate in Finance Bill 2026–27 to ‘clarify’ the tax treatment of image...
Latest Tax Precedents
[To be set out on client’s headed notepaper or with client’s logo]Status determination statementThis is a status determination statement, provided in...
[To be set out on client’s headed notepaper or with client’s logo]Off-payroll working (IR35): confirmation of the size of our organisationOn [insert...
This Agreement is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[Insert name of selling corporate entity] incorporated in [England and Wales...
1Compliance1.1ReturnsThe Company has duly and properly submitted all [material] computations and returns (including all land transaction returns),...
This Agreement is made on [insert day and month] 20[insert year]Parties1[Insert name of selling corporate shareholder] incorporated in [England and...
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
Distribution
In the Corporation Tax Acts (CTAs) "distribution" means anything falling within of CTA 2010, s 1000.
Pay As You Earn
A pay as you earn system under which employers or pension providers make certain deductions from an employee’s or pensioner’s income including for liability to income tax and insurance-contributions-'>National Insurance contributions.
Stamp Duty Land Tax
Stamp duty land tax is chargeable on land transactions, which are acquisitions of chargeable interests, ie legal or equitable interests in land located in the England and Northern Ireland, for chargeable consideration. The equivalent tax in Scotland is ‘land and buildings transaction tax’ and in Wales is ‘land transaction tax’.
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