Market leading insight for tax experts
Subscribe
Home
Saved articles
Viewed articles
Login
Logout
E-newsletter
Advertise
About us
Help
View online issue
BROWSE BY TOPIC
Corporate Taxes
Compliance
Corporation tax
DPT
Groups
Transactional tax
Employment taxes
Employment taxes
Termination payments
Indirect Taxes
Customs & Excise duties
Environmental taxes
IPT
VAT
International Taxes
BEPS
CFCs
Cross border
Double tax relief
Foreign profits
Residence
Transfer pricing
UK competitiveness
Withholding taxes
Private Business Taxes
OMBs
Partnerships
Private Client Taxes
CGT
IHT
Pensions & investments
Trusts & estates
Real Estate Taxes
Property taxes
REITs
Stamp Taxes
SDLT
SDRT
Tax policy & administration
Anti-avoidance
Appeals
Brexit
Compliance
HMRC Powers
Investigations
Litigation
Tax policy
Tax risk
NEWS
CASES
IN BRIEF
ANALYSIS
ONE MINUTE WITH
PEOPLE & FIRMS
TRACKERS
AUTHORS
ISSUE ARCHIVE
BROWSE BY TOPIC
Corporate taxes
Compliance
Corporation tax
DPT
Groups
Transactional tax
Employment taxes
Employment taxes
Termination payments
Indirect taxes
Customs & Excise duties
Environmental taxes
IPT
VAT
International taxes
BEPS
CFCs
Cross border
Double tax relief
Foreign profits
Residence
Transfer pricing
UK competitiveness
Withholding taxes
Private business taxes
OMBs
Partnerships
Private client taxes
CGT
IHT
Pensions & investments
Trusts & estates
Real estate taxes
Property taxes
REITs
Stamp taxes
SDLT
SDRT
Tax policy & administration
Anti-avoidance
Appeals
Brexit
Compliance
HMRC Powers
Investigations
Litigation
Tax policy
Tax risk
Subscribe
Home
Saved articles
Viewed articles
View virtual issue
View online issue
Login
Logout
E-newsletter
Advertise
About us
Help
News
Cases
In brief
Analysis
One Minute With
People & Firms
Trackers
Authors
Issue Archive
SEARCH
Home
Ftt
Home
Ftt
FTT
The VAT review for July 2025
Jo Crookshank
Gary Barnett
This month’s review by Jo Crookshank and Gary Barnett (Simmons &
Simmons) covers recent decisions on the single/multiple supply rule and the
VAT finance intermediation exemption, as well as HMRC’s change of policy on
pension scheme costs.
Competing views on the VAT exemption for medical care
Alex Spencer
Two recent cases demonstrate that the scope of the VAT exemption for health
and welfare is far from certain, writes Alex Spencer (Field Court Tax Chambers).
Improving HMRC’s approach to dispute resolution
Adam Craggs
Liam McKay
Adam Craggs and Liam McKay (RPC) examine the current consultation
which could help influence HMRC’s future approach to dispute resolution.
Findings of fact are stubborn things: A Taxpayer v HMRC
Catrin Harrison
Dominic Lawrance
Dominic Lawrance and Catrin Harrison (Charles Russell Speechlys)
consider the implications of the Court of Appeal judgment.
Executor of P Goudman-Peachey v HMRC
Country estate was a mixed-use property
HMRC v M Breen
FTT grants HMRC’s costs application
AD Bly Groundworks and Civil Engineering Ltd v HMRC
No deduction allowable for provisions in respect of an unfunded unapproved retirement benefit scheme, Court of Appeal rules
Saunders v HMRC
‘Stock appreciation rights’ were taxable earnings
TSI Instruments Ltd v HMRC
No recovery of import VAT by non-owners
J Boulting v HMRC
Purchase of own shares benefited company’s trade
Go to page
of
10
EDITOR'S PICK
Tax Journal's 2025 Budget coverage
1 /7
Management expenses: HMRC’s new nudge campaign
Anna Lucey
,
Constantine Christofi
2 /7
Medpro: better late than never
Stacey Cranmore
3 /7
No escape: the new IHT tax rules for pensions
Harriet Betteridge
4 /7
What time is it? A review of the Supreme Court’s decision in Prudential
David Jamieson
5 /7
The trials and tribulations of interest withholding tax
Bezhan Salehy
,
Rebecca Rose
,
Elvira Colomer Fatjo
6 /7
Understanding the FIG regime
Jo Bateson
7 /7
Tax Journal's 2025 Budget coverage
Management expenses: HMRC’s new nudge campaign
Anna Lucey
,
Constantine Christofi
Medpro: better late than never
Stacey Cranmore
No escape: the new IHT tax rules for pensions
Harriet Betteridge
What time is it? A review of the Supreme Court’s decision in Prudential
David Jamieson
The trials and tribulations of interest withholding tax
Bezhan Salehy
,
Rebecca Rose
Understanding the FIG regime
Jo Bateson
NEWS
Read all
Tax Journal authors for December
HMRC manual changes: 12 December 2025
Finance Bill 2026 published
HMRC revise position on VAT grouping and the Skandia judgment
HMRC explain TOMS changes
CASES
Read all
Cases of 2025
Places for People Homes Ltd v HMRC
Executor of P Goudman-Peachey v HMRC
HMRC v M Breen
Other cases that caught our eye: 5 December 2025
IN BRIEF
Read all
TSI Instruments and import VAT recovery
Voluntary returns and impossible penalties
Budget 2025 changes to the share exchanges and reorganisation rules
Fixing the FIG regime before extending it
Welsh Government consults on LTT and other tax changes
MOST READ
Read all
Budget 2025 changes to the share exchanges and reorganisation rules
The 2025 loan charge review and Government response: the final chapter?
TSI Instruments and import VAT recovery
Executor of P Goudman-Peachey v HMRC
Finance Bill 2026 published