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This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) analysis of the High Court’s decision in Aubrey Weis v HMRC concerning the taxpayer’s claim...
Tax Analysis: In Aubrey Weis v HMRC, the High Court granted the claimant’s application to extend time to bring judicial review proceedings against...
Tax analysis: In GW Martin & Co Ltd & another v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) dismissed the appeals brought by the appellant companies,...
This week's edition of Tax weekly highlights includes: (1) News Analysis on the FTT’s decision in Isle of Wight NHS Trust concerning the VAT treatment...
Tax analysis: In Isle of Wight NHS Trust v HMRC, the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) decided that VAT at the standard rate had incorrectly been charged...
Latest Tax Practice Notes
Development of commercial property—direct tax considerationsProperty development is an essential part of the activities of all those involved in the...
SDLT—multiple dwellings reliefMultiple dwellings relief (MDR) applies to certain transactions that involve an acquisition of at least two dwellings or...
Scotland: Land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT)—the basicsFORTHCOMING CHANGE: The Scottish government is conducting a review of LBTT that...
Should I appeal to the tax tribunal?This Practice Note has been written by Anne Redston, Barrister. It is her personal view; she is not authorised to...
Reasonable excuse for late paid taxFORTHCOMING CHANGE relating to penalty reform calls for evidence and behavioural penalties consultation: Building...
Latest Tax Precedents
VAT TOGC clause—property sale contractTransfer of a going concern1The Seller and the Buyer intend that the sale and transfer of the Property in...
Capital allowances clause—agreement for lease with a landlord’s contribution1Capital allowances1.1In this clause 1:CAA 2001•means the Capital...
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) clauses for an agreement for lease1Construction Industry Scheme—for use where the landlord’s contribution is a...
Loan note instrument—buyout—managers£[insert number][insert rate]% [subordinated ]redeemable loan notes20[insert year][insert name of Issuer]This...
Settlement agreement (employment) (short form)This Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Insert Employer’s name] whose registered office is at...
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
Buy-in management buyout (BIMBO)
A BIMBO is a buyout bringing out a change of management which involves a mixture of new and existing management. Internally, a group of managers will acquire enough share capital to ‘buy out’ the company from within. An outside team of managers will simultaneously ‘buy in’ to the company management. Both parties may require financial investment in order to achieve this end.
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.
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.
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