DISCOVERY-ASSESSMENTS

FTT warning over the dangers of using AI

No reasonable excuse for misunderstanding HMRC’s letter: If HMRC write to you saying that you no longer need to complete a self-assessment tax return what does that actually mean? The taxpayer in A Hussain v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 546 (TC) (19 May)...

Discovery assessment invalid

Determining domicile: In A Weis v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 348 (TC) (21 March), the taxpayer, a Rabbi, had been born in the UK in 1949 in Manchester to a father who had been born in Eastern Europe but had come to the UK in 1938. The father had acquired...

VAT on KFC sauce pots: Queenscourt Ltd v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 460 (TC) (3 June 2024) concerned whether a supply of a sauce pot with a takeaway meal in a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise was part of a standard rated supply of hot food or a separate...

Non-domiciles and remittance basis of taxation: In A Alimahomed v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 432 (TC) (23 May 2024), the FTT allowed part of the taxpayer’s appeal, finding that a discovery assessment in relation to the 2015/16 tax year was not valid...

Application to be joined as a party: The APP Accounting Group Ltd v Uberdev Ltd and another [2024] UKFTT 100 (TC) (25 January) is a case management decision in which the FTT allowed an application for a third party (TAAG) to be added to an appeal as...

HMRC’s assessment powers vary depending on the tax at issue but there are common themes, write Matthew Greene and Guy Bud (Stewarts).