Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue we discuss...more
Welcome to April’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. While this month has been quiet on the case law front, there have been a number of HMRC announcements and updates to prior published guidance along with published responses...more
The recent case of A Sajedi and others v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 297 (TC) in the UK First-tier Tribunal (“FTT”) is an interesting example of a UK taxation tribunal intervening to decide a litigated matter on grounds that neither...more
KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER BRITISH LAW - 1. Introduction - Historically, there has been significant investment by overseas individuals and corporations in real estate in England and Wales and in...more
KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER SCOTTISH LAW - 1. Introduction - This guide applies to real estate in Scotland only. 2. Tenure - Real estate, both commercial and residential in Scotland may be...more
Stamp Duty Land Tax Changes from April 2025: What Buyers Need to Know - From 1st April 2025, significant changes to Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) will take effect, impacting buyers across England and Wales. These adjustments...more
Rachel Reeves, the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer in the role’s 800-year history, delivered Labour’s first budget in 14 years on the 30th October. We have set out below a brief summary of some of the tax measures...more
Yesterday, 30 October 2024, the Chancellor announced that the Autumn 2024 budget will raise taxes by £40bn, the biggest raise since 1993. While the Autumn budget arguably does not portray as pessimistic an outlook for...more
The real estate sector was not ignored by Budget announcements today. There were no seismic changes – the changes announced were less impactful than the speculation in the weeks preceding the Budget....more
Guernsey companies are extremely popular, and are used for a wide variety of purposes. Guernsey companies can be incorporated quickly and a large number of corporate services providers offer day-to-day administration...more
The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the United Kingdom (UK) Spring Budget for 2024 on 8 March 2024. The Budget was delivered against the backdrop of an anticipated general election in the summer or autumn of 2024 and...more
Key Tax Measures The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the United Kingdom (“UK”) Spring Budget for 2024 on 8 March, 2024. The Budget was delivered against the backdrop of an anticipated general election in the summer...more
Budgets are normally stories of two halves. The first half contains the headline-grabbing tax policy reforms that can be encapsulated in a snappy soundbite in the Budget speech, such as “Chancellor scraps the non-dom regime”....more
In this review of taxation and the British Virgin Islands, Conyers Corporate Counsel Nicholas Kuria discusses some of the most commonly misunderstood notions relating to the use of offshore jurisdictions, with a focus on the...more
In contrast to recent years, when there has been plenty for real estate tax lawyers to feast on, this Autumn Statement was fairly quiet. Full expensing - After a prolonged period of time-limited, enhanced reliefs,...more
The UK government’s proposals for the reform of stamp duty have been widely welcomed; it is generally felt that modernisation and reform are long overdue in this context. Although the proposals are not intended to alter the...more
On 27 April 2023, the UK government announced the administrative companion piece to the Budget announced earlier this year, which includes 23 technical tax policy proposals (although some are merely announcements of future...more
In an attempt to calm the markets and ensure the UK’s economic stability the new Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, gave a statement ahead of the scheduled Medium-Term Fiscal Plan on 31 October. He announced a reversal of almost...more
Following a highly negative response from the financial markets and the IMF, amongst others, to the UK Government’s “Growth Plan 2022” (released on 23 September 2022 by the then-new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and summarised by...more
As has been widely reported, a number of the Mini Budget proposals (summarised in our recent Tax Blog) have been scrapped. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt announced these measures claiming that they are...more
Summary - Some key measures for businesses in this sector were: ..Cancellation of the planned increase in the rate of corporation tax from 19% to 25% from April 2023. The rate will remain at 19%. ..From November...more
The Chancellor today unveiled the UK’s 2022 Growth Plan which has been described as being “the biggest package of tax cuts in generations”. We have summarised here the tax changes that we think will be of interest to our...more