UK corporate offence of failure to prevent tax evasion
Welcome to July’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. Apart from the draft legislation and accompanying material released on 21 July as part of “L-Day” (legislation day), July was a fairly quiet month for UK tax developments....more
June 2025 – The UK Government has published its response to the consultation on its proposal to change the tax treatment of carried interest, confirming the expected final shape of the new regime which will take effect from...more
On 28 April 2025, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) proposed significant reforms to the UK’s transfer pricing and permanent establishment (PE) rules, and a repeal of the diverted profits tax, bringing that regime within UK...more
On 28 April 2025, the UK government published draft legislative amendments to: - Align the UK’s domestic tax rules on permanent establishments (PE) with the 2017 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...more
The replacement of the UK’s paper-based stamp duty (SD), and its electronic cousin stamp duty reserve tax (SDRT), with a unified and modernised single tax on securities transactions re-emerged this week as a Government...more
Welcome to February’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. This month’s edition includes updated guidance on the VAT treatment of contractual termination payments, updated HMRC guidance on the assessment of “substantial”...more
In Haworth v HMRC the Supreme Court (SC) upheld the Court of Appeal’s (CA’s) decision to quash a follower notice (FN) and accelerated payment notice (APN) issued to the taxpayer, Mr Haworth. An FN can be issued by HMRC where...more