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IN BRIEF

Views on recent developments in tax.

What stops the sale of renewable project companies from falling within the transactions in land rules? Absolutely nothing. 

Development Securities subtly redraws the dividing line between influence and usurpation. 

Rupert Shiers comments on the Supreme Court ruling.

The revised draft Finance Bill provisions on non-doms are generally bad news for affected taxpayers, but the transitional rules are extremely good news.
 

Could your Facebook updates be used to determine your grandchildren’s tax status? 

Figures from HMRC’s accounts suggest a route and branch review is needed of the way fixed penalties operate.

The Upper Tribunal’s criticism of Judge Thomas seems harsh.

The Taylor report on modern working practices proposes major changes to employment rights and goes much further on tax reform than many had anticipated.
 

Here is a tax case that you don’t see every day: the taxpayer claimed to be an employee, but HMRC contradicted that he was self-employed and HMRC won.

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