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The Ramsay Principle

 
In the first of three articles Nigel Doran partner in the corporate tax group at Macfarlanes considers the development of the Ramsay principle since the seminal decision in BMBF/SPI
 
In the first of three articles on recent developments in the Ramsay principle I will be covering two post-BMBF/SPI cases in which the proper construction of legislation exploited for tax avoidance purposes was the central issue and a case in which a legalistic construction of the relevant legislation was held to exclude a Ramsay approach to the facts.
Introduction
 
The decision in 2004 of the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords in BMBF Ltd v Mawson and IRC v Scottish Provident Institution...

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