Litigation
Tax adviser’s £70m fraud ‘conned innocent charities’
A tax adviser was found guilty of cheating the public revenue by dishonestly submitting and facilitating tax relief claims that…17 Jan 2012
2011 review: dispute resolution
James Bullock reviews the top five developments in tax affecting dispute resolution15 Dec 2011
Mediation in larger scale cases: taxpayers should beware of the emperor bearing gifts
The period for tax practitioners to send comments to HMRC on its proposals for offering mediation as an alternative to…2 Nov 2011
Non-domicile status: can we talk about it?
Non-domicile status2 Nov 2011
Tax evasion: prosecutions
The government has set out the number of cases prosecuted for income tax, corporation tax, VAT and excise evasion since 2006/07: 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 1.4.11-31.8.11 389 416 340 237 385 123 Source:…19 Oct 2011
MPs continue to probe HMRC handling of tax settlements
The National Audit Office is to ‘examine the reasonableness’ of some of the larger tax settlements reached by HMRC and…18 Oct 2011
Hartnett denies misleading MPs and says sorry for interest ‘mistake’
HMRC’s top tax official told MPs yesterday that he was very sorry that HMRC made a ‘mistake’ resulting in no…13 Oct 2011
Resolving tax disputes: the third way ...
HMRC's refreshed Litigation Settlement Strategy (LSS) has now been supplemented by two draft practical guidance notes, both published on 14…21 Sep 2011
The disclosure of skeleton arguments in tax
The application On 13 July 2011 Lord Justice Ward made a landmark direction granting the application of James Kessler QC to…16 Sep 2011
Reviewing the impact of Anson (FTC/39/2010, aka Swift)
The Upper Tribunal’s decision for HMRC, in the appeal against the First-tier Tribunal’s decision in Swift (TC00399), is probably correct…7 Sep 2011
Judicial review of the Upper Tribunal
Craig Connal QC reviews the impact of the recent Supreme Court decision on this issue1 Sep 2011
Litigation and Settlement Strategy: 45 pages of draft guidance
Draft guidance for HMRC staff on the department’s updated Litigation and Settlement Strategy (LSS) runs to 45 pages. The ‘refreshed’ LSS…17 Aug 2011
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