HMRC-GUIDANCE

Steven Porter and Abigail McGregor (Pinsent Masons) consider the UTT regime after two years of operation.

There is no equivalent to a Foundation registered with the Dubai International Finance Centre Registrar of Companies under English law. How then should they be treated for UK tax purposes? Kyra Motley and Will Timbrell (Boodle Hatfield) investigate.

Brigitte Potts (Evelyn Partners) and Joshua Stevens (Pump Court Tax Chambers) consider the VAT implications of credits or biodiversity units in tackling climate change.

HMRC’s updated guidance on the treatment of profits arising within, and distributions from, US LLCs is unsatisfactory in a number of respects, write Sebastian Prichard Jones and Andrew Crozier (Macfarlanes).

Target Group, Vermilion and changes to HMRC’s guidance on the double tax treaty passport scheme are among the  developments examined by Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May).

Jonathan Athow, HMRC’s director general of customer strategy and tax design, explains why tax simplification matters to HMRC and what they are doing to help deliver it.

Identifying an occupation is a cornerstone of the sale of occupational income rules. As those rules are increasingly invoked by HMRC, Liesl Fichardt and Emily Au (Quinn Emanuel) examine the guiding principles to identify an occupation, profession and vocation, and highlight the areas of obscurity.

With HMRC’s scrutiny of taxpayers’ domicile status showing no signs of abating, Hugh Gunson and Louise Paterson (Charles Russell Speechlys) examine key lessons from recent case law.