Death, Taxes and Politics: The Future of Tax Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election
HMRC have announced a change to VAT policy to allow employers of defined benefit pension scheme to recover up to 100% of VAT on pension scheme investment costs. Employers and pension scheme trustees may need to consider...more
HMRC has announced a new policy on the recovery by employers of VAT charged on investment services provided to their DB pension schemes. Until 18 June 2025, the extent to which an employer could recover any VAT paid on...more
Roseline Logistics Ltd (Roseline) acted as a Customs agent for QP Trading Limited (QPTL) and made 32 import declarations between January and May 2022. Roseline claimed postponed VAT accounting (PVA) on QPTL's behalf in each...more
The Court of Appeal (CA) in WTGIL Ltd v HMRC [2025] EWCA Civ 399 considered the scope of the VAT exemption for services supplied by insurance intermediaries. The case concerned motor insurance for young drivers which required...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
Introduction - After a long gestation, the much heralded new UK fund structure, the Reserved Investor Fund (“RIF”) is finally expected to be available from 19 March 2025....more
Sonder Europe Limited (Sonder) leased self-contained apartments from landlords for 2 to 10 years, furnishing and decorating them if needed (without altering the fabric or structure of the apartment), and then sub-let them to...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
Welcome to the September 2024 edition of our UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen decisions on UK tax residence, VAT group eligibility and the Supreme Court’s ruling in the long running case involving the employment status of...more
In Barclays Service Corporation and another v HMRC, the First Tier Tribunal (the “FTT”) has held that the UK branch of an overseas company did not qualify as a member of a value added tax (“VAT”) group in the UK....more
A new digital VAT registration tool has been launched by HMRC that can be used to help businesses work out the effects of registering for VAT. The launch of the tool known as the VAT Registration Estimator came about...more
The characterisation of fixed and floating charges remains a complex area, not least with respect to new intangible asset types. The key distinction between a fixed and a floating charge is well established as a matter of...more
In 2027, the UK will introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on imports of certain carbon intensive goods. The CBAM will impose a charge on the emissions embodied in relevant imports that take place on or after...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 Target Group Ltd v HMRC [2023] UKSC 35 (“Target”), the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has held that the loan services which the taxpayer company provided to a bank were not exempt from VAT. ...more
Welcome to the October edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen the Supreme Court’s judgment on the operation of the employment-related securities deeming provision, the Court of Appeal’s decision on what...more
We recently hosted an event as part of our Sustainable Transition seminar series titled “Tax incentives for sustainable investments: where are the opportunities?”. In this article, our panellists set out some of the key...more
In its recent decision in Lidl Great Britain Ltd v Closed Circuit Cooling Ltd (t/a 3CL) [2023] EWHC 2243 (TCC), the TCC provided some helpful guidance around the statutory payment provisions in the Housing Grants,...more
Welcome to April’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen a number of interesting cases highlighting the need for taxpayers and HMRC alike to apply a realistic approach to the facts in assessing the tax...more
Underneath the headline points, the Budget contained a number of measures designed to fulfil the Chancellor’s objective of encouraging growth and investment. There was broadly good news for those investing in UK real estate....more
Welcome to February’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. The month has seen interesting cases on the “entitlement” to income and the single and multiple supply tests for VAT as well as announcement of the publication date for...more
Whilst the default position is that supplies of land and buildings are usually exempt from VAT (the sale of new commercial buildings excepted), landowners of commercial property will often choose to opt to tax their property...more
VAT incurred on corporate advisory fees not recoverable - In Ince Gordon Dadds LLP v HMRC, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has decided that Ince Gordon Dadds LLP (formerly Culver Holdings Limited and the taxpayer) (Culver)...more