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Tax and the City review for June 2025
Mike Lane
Zoe Andrews
This month’s review by Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May)
looks at the decisions in
Beard
and
Rettig
, as well as HMRC’s revised guidance
on unallowable purpose.
FA 2025 review: EOTs: common sense prevails
Ritchie Tout
FA 2025 Sch 6 introduces some fundamental and far-reaching changes to the Employee Ownership Trusts (EOT) tax rules. HMRC view the changes as pure anti-avoidance to provide them with the tools to counter the undoubted abuse of the EOT tax...
A Beard v HMRC
Court of Appeal finds that distributions debited to company’s share premium account were dividends that were not capital in nature
Corporation tax rate complexities for corporate LLP members
Emma Rawson OBE
The corporation tax rates rules can be complex. Emma Rawson (ATT) looks at the particular difficulties facing corporate members of LLPs.
Clipperton revisited: open questions
Oliver Marre
Oliver Marre (5 Stone Buildings) considers the Court of Appeal decision and
its implications going forward.
S Clipperton and another v HMRC
Court of Appeal confirms that dividend replacement scheme failed.
UK holding companies: why they are still holding strong?
Sophie Hatton
Artem Vasyutin
As a territorial tax regime, the UK has a number of benefits, which have only increased over the last two decades, write Artem Vasyutin and
Sophie Hatton (
Deloitte).
Timing of dividends for income tax purposes
Aiden Hepworth
Dominic Stuttaford
Two recent cases provide a reminder of the extent to which taxation outcomes can depend on other areas of law and demonstrate that HMRC will not be limited to ‘pure’ tax law arguments on appeal, write Dominic Stuttaford and Aiden Hepworth (Norton Rose Fulbright).
The new Luxembourg/UK double tax treaty
Irfan Butt
Andrew Seidler
Irfan Butt and Andrew Seidler (RSM) consider the implications for funds and real estate structures.
Remuneration trusts: the importance of facts
Constantine Christofi
Adam Craggs
Adam Craggs and Constantine Christofi (RPC) examine the First-tier Tribunal decision in
Marlborough DP Ltd v HMRC
that suggests the shortcomings in HMRC’s general approach following
Rangers
.
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Rights, influence and LLP member status after BlueCrest
Constantine Christofi
,
Craig Kirkham-Wilson
,
Lauren Trask
1 /7
Let the light in: LLCs and other reverse hybrids
Matthew Rowbotham
2 /7
HFFX: the widening reach of miscellaneous income
Elena Rowlands
,
Tom Margesson
,
Ian Zeider
3 /7
Estoppel and abuse of process in VAT
Claire Logan
4 /7
The UK’s tax certainty problem
Jenny Batchelor
,
Ahmed Mobasshir
5 /7
HMRC’s status in Part 26A restructuring plans: the High Court decision in Waldorf
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,
Jade Du Berry
,
Ollie Winters
6 /7
Ask an expert: Dividend planning under the new close company reporting regime
Nick Wright
7 /7
Rights, influence and LLP member status after BlueCrest
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,
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,
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Claire Logan
The UK’s tax certainty problem
Jenny Batchelor
,
Ahmed Mobasshir
HMRC’s status in Part 26A restructuring plans: the High Court decision in Waldorf
Alan Rafferty
,
Jade Du Berry
Ask an expert: Dividend planning under the new close company reporting regime
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