HMRC-GUIDANCE

Jennifer Tragner (S&W) considers an unsettled year for R&D reliefs, where transitional rules, evolving guidance and emerging AI questions kept advisers busy despite few new policy changes.

Jo Crookshank

Gary Barnett

Jo Crookshank and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) provide this month’s round-up of the latest VAT developments, including two CJEU rulings.

Jack Prytherch

Yousuf Chughtai

HMRC’s newly published materials raise important questions about how taxpayers are engaging with the UTT regime in practice, writes Yousuf Chughtai and Jack Prytherch (Osborne Clarke).

Zoe Andrews

Mike Lane

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.

James Dudbridge

HMRC’s updated guidance marks the end of a long and winding road for R&D claimants and their advisers, writes James Dudbridge (ForrestBrown).

Henry Lowe

Henry Lowe (Mercer & Hole) explores how best to fund a divorce payment now that the non-dom regime has been abolished.

Reasonable excuse and reliance on third party: In Xcel Consult Ltd v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 96 (TC) (30 January), the taxpayer was arguing that she had a reasonable excuse defence in her appeal against a VAT surcharge because she had relied on her...

Gerald Montagu

Elmira Jazottes

Gerald Montagu and Elmira Jazottes (Gide Loyrette Nouel) consider the importance of the evolving science of memory in tax.

Jo Crookshank

Gary Barnett

HMRC have set out their expectations for taxpayer VAT compliance processes and procedures. This and other recent developments in VAT are examined by Jo Crookshank and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons).