Specialist Tax Statutory Instruments
SI 2025/17: This Order is made to amend the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Collective Investment Schemes) Order 2001, SI 2001/1062 to insert a new paragraph 22 into the Schedule, which clarifies that arrangements for qualifying cryptoasset staking do not amount to a collective investment scheme. It comes into force on 31 January 2025.
Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Trade or hobbyInteraction of hobby farming rules and commercialityFarming has its own set of ‘hobby farming rules’, which historically have stated that a profit must be made every six years. This is known as ‘the five-year rule’, in that there can be five years of losses but there must be a profit
Sales, advertising and marketingExpenditure on sales, advertising and marketing activities may include amounts which are disallowable for the purposes of calculating trading profits. This may be because the expenditure is:•capital in nature (see the Capital vs revenue expenditure guidance note)•not
Long service awardsEmployee recognition by an employer can be an important motivational tool, as well as having a positive effect on retention. Most employer awards made to an employee are treated as taxable earnings under ITEPA 2003, s 62 or as a benefit under ITEPA 2003, s 201 because they are
