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Cutting edge analysis on tax issues.

Kashif Javed and Greg Smythe (KPMG) review recent developments to HMRC’s draft guidance on the hybrid mismatch rules.
 
Tim Sarson (KPMG) reviews the latest developments in the international tax world.
 
Helen Miller (Institute for Fiscal Studies) considers how we should tax  different ways of working in an increasingly diverse labour market.
Simon Whitehead and Sarah Tulip (Joseph Hage Aaronson) consider the  implications, and legality, of the new 25% tax on transfers to pensions outside the UK.
 
Jeanette Zaman and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May) review recent  developments affecting the City.
 
Andrew Goldstone and Stuart Adams (Mishcon de Reya) review the latest  tax developments that matter affecting private clients.
 

This report, by the Lexis®PSL Tax, Private Client and Pensions teams, highlights the key provisions in the 2017 Finance Bill, published on 20 March, that have not been previously published in draft, or which have been published with significant amendments since the last draft.

It seems that HMRC will finally achieve its objective of taxing all but the very oldest of loans made by EBTs by the end of 2018/19. Ashley Greenbank and Nigel Doran (Macfarlanes) explain.
 

There were some surprising omissions in the Finance Bill, report Thomas Barker and Janet Parterson (Charter Tax).

Leaving the EU will allow future chancellors to vary VAT and other indirect taxes more than up to now. Will they use this new-found freedom? David Smith reports.
 
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