Issue 1730

Analysis

• From Swiss Re to Lloyd’s: lessons in tax leadership
• Non-dom reforms and revenue realities
• Close encounters with close companies (part 2): common issues in practice
• The VAT review for November 2025
• In conversation with...Elaine Lorimer

In brief

• Exclusive purposes

News

• HMRC manual changes: 7 November 2025
• Post Office Capture Redress Scheme tax exemptions
• Chancellor seeks to reassure markets ahead of Budget
• Welsh Government publishes second stage of Draft Budget
• New regs pave way for delegation of HMRC PAYE functions
• HMRC issue coding notices Direction
• TaxAid preparing for MTD surge in demand
• HMRC Stakeholder Digest

Cases

• Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v HMRC
• J Boulting v HMRC
• HMRC v Ducas Ltd
• Other cases that caught our eye: 7 November 2025

One minute with

• One minute with… John Shallcross

Trackers

• HMRC manual changes: 7 November 2025