Specialist Tax Statutory Instruments
These Regulations are made to amend a piece of UK secondary legislation in relation to financial services and markets. They provide for the testing of the efficiency and effectiveness of a new kind of share-trading system, the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System, or PISCES. The PISCES sandbox is a financial markets infrastructure (FMI) sandbox provided at sections 13 to 17 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023. FMI sandboxes provide for the testing of new or developing technologies or practices in FMI activities, and for the testing of whether or how relevant enactments should apply to the operation of those new technologies or practices. They are made in exercise of legislative powers under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) and the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (FSMA 2023) in connection with assimilated law.
Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Exemption ― burial and cremationThis guidance note provides an overview of the VAT treatment of services that are provided in connection with the burial or cremation of human remains.VAT treatmentThe following services are exempt from VAT:•the disposal of the remains of the dead•making arrangements
Winding up a trust ― legal, administrative and compliance issuesOverviewWhen winding up a trust, there are legal formalities and compliance issues that need to be dealt with, as well as IHT and CGT consequences that flow from the termination. This guidance note considers when and how a trust comes
Overseas property businesses for companiesOverviewReal estate income is generally taxed where the property is located; the UK tax treaties generally allow the jurisdiction where the land is located to tax income from the land.Therefore, a UK company with overseas property may be subject to tax in
Autumn Budget 2024
