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The government should take a more pragmatic approach to taxpayers affected by the loan charge, writes Sarah Gabbai (McDermott Will & Emery).
Karen Cooper (Cooper Cavendish) sets out the rules, tax treatment and the impact of legislation on EBTs and remuneration planning.
David Southern QC (Temple Tax Chambers) examines where things stand following publication of the first batch of draft legislation that restricts the loan charge.
The government has accepted many of the recommendations of Sir Amyas Morse’s independent report on the loan charge. David Pett (Temple Tax Chambers) examines the detail.
The loan charge has driven a coach and horses through the statutory safeguards, writes barrister Keith Gordon (Temple Tax Chambers). 
David Pett (Temple Tax Chambers) argues that outstanding loan charges should be pursued both as a matter of law and social policy.

While to some the arrival of the loan charge legislation feels like the beginning of the end of this saga, the reality may be that this is more like the end of the beginning, as Lisa Vanderheide and Sarah Stenton (Stewarts) explain.

The 2019 loan charge teaches us that there is more to statutory time limits than the technical analysis, write Richard Jeens and Rose Swaffield (Slaughter and May). 
 
Gideon Sanitt (Macfarlanes) considers the human rights challenge by the Loan Charge Action Group against rules taxing historical employment related loans that are outstanding on 5 April 2019.

In our continuing series, Heather Self examines tax issues that make the national headlines. This week, the controversial retrospective loan charge.

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