UK corporate offence of failure to prevent tax evasion
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
Welcome to February’s edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen a number of interesting decisions covering the unallowable purpose test in relation to cross border group relief tax losses, the application of the...more
Welcome to April’s edition of our UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen a number of interesting decisions covering the application of the transfer pricing rules and the unallowable purpose test to an intragroup financing...more
HMRC has published a consultation paper anticipating reforms to the UK’s rules on transfer pricing, permanent establishments and diverted profits tax. This is a wide-ranging review and it may be that its constituent parts...more
A decision in late-July 2022 of the UK’s Upper-tier Tax tribunal (“UTT”) has held that interest recognized by a UK resident company on loan notes issued to its parent was non-deductible under the UK transfer pricing rules, as...more
In applying the UK’s transfer pricing rules, tax advisers have to think beyond the amount of the debt and the interest rate to get comfortable that an intra-group loan is going to be tax deductible. Following a recent case,...more
When applying the UK’s transfer pricing rules to compare an intra-group loan to the hypothetical arm’s length transaction that an independent third-party lender would have agreed to, there is no scope to read in covenants...more
Welcome to July’s edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month has seen an interesting decision of the First-tier Tribunal on the salaried member rules as they apply to asset manager LLPs, a surprising decision on the terms...more
COVID-19 Developments - Tax exemptions for coronavirus antigen costs - Draft regulations providing for employee and employer national insurance contribution (NIC) exemptions from payments made to employees to cover...more
UK Case Law Developments - Reliance on HMRC's manual statement can, but didn't, give rise to legitimate expectation - In the recent judicial review case of Roao Aozora GMAC Investment Ltd v HMRC, the Court of Appeal...more
The UK tax authority, HMRC, recently announced the introduction of a new Profit Diversion Compliance Facility, which is aimed at tackling the avoidance of tax by diverting profits outside the UK without proper economic...more
The UK tax authority (HMRC) has announced a new Profits Diversion Compliance Facility (PDCF), as part of its efforts to ensure that multinationals do not use artificial arrangements to divert profit to lower tax...more
HMRC has announced today the introduction of a new Profits Diversion Compliance Facility, which is aimed at tackling the avoidance of tax by multinationals by diverting profits outside the UK without proper economic...more
HMRC announced today the introduction of their new Profits Diversion Compliance Facility (PDCF). This is a way for multinationals to take the initiative and explain their legal and operational structures before HMRC launch...more
UK Tax News and Developments - Finance (No 2) Bill 2017 - The second Finance Bill of 2017, known as Finance (No 2) Bill 2017, has now been published. As expected, this contains most of the provisions which were dropped from...more
The French 3 Percent Distribution Tax: Claiming a Refund - Since December 2012, French companies have been liable for a 3 percent tax on distributions to their shareholders (3 Percent Tax), but practitioners have widely...more