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The VAT review for December 2025
Katie Oliver
Gary Barnett
Katie Oliver and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) review recent
VAT developments on factoring, public bodies, input VAT evidence and
intermediaries’ recovery rights.
From check-in to checkmate: Hotelbeds clarifies HMRC’s discretion to allow input tax recovery
Rebekka Sandwell
Robert Waterson
Ed Griffiths
The ruling in
Hotelbeds
underscores the public law duty on HMRC to exercise
their functions fairly, rationally and reasonably, write Robert Waterson and
Ed Griffiths (Eversheds Sutherland).
The VAT review for November 2025
Gary Barnett
Jo Crookshank
Jo Crookshank and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) review the latest
VAT decisions, including the Supreme Court ruling in Prudential and the
Court of Appeal decision in Hippodrome.
The VAT review for October 2025
Gary Barnett
Jo Crookshank
Jo Crookshank and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) provide this month’s round-up of the latest VAT developments, including two CJEU rulings.
Littlewoods Ltd v HMRC
VAT on promotional photography costs
Eurocent (Buckingham) Ltd v HMRC
HMRC not entitled to deny input tax.
Hippodrome Casino Ltd v HMRC
CA rejects ‘floorspace’ based method of calculating input tax recovery
Other cases that caught our eye: 10 October 2025
Repayment of withholding tax: Skatteforvaltningen v Solo Capital Partners LLP [2025] EWHC 2364 (Comm) (2 October) is the long-awaited judgment in the case under which the Danish tax authorities are suing various individuals and firms in respect of...
The VAT review for February 2025
Gary Barnett
Joao Martinho
Joao Martinho and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) examine recent developments in the VAT world, including a CJEU decision which appears to extend the MEO/Vodafone Portugal treatment of contractual termination payments to similar damages payments.
Tax and the City review for June 2024
Mike Lane
Zoe Andrews
Kwik-Fit
,
Hotel La Tour
and the FTT decision in
Osmond
are among the latest developments reviewed by Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May).
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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
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Tax bodies back Lords concerns over IHT reforms, including ‘huge’ burden on PRs
Finance Bill 2026 amendments
PAYE changes for employment expenses and gift aid relief
UK-Peru double tax convention
Welsh Budget
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M Holden v HMRC and HMRC v The Boston Consulting Group UK LLP and others
Nimbus: The Disability Consultancy Service Ltd v HMRC
Delphi Derivatives Ltd (in liquidation) v HMRC
Other cases that caught our eye: 30 January 2026
HMRC v MedPro Healthcare
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Revenue fraud
The new share for share anti-avoidance
Value on death: IHT
TSI Instruments and import VAT recovery
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HMRC manual changes: 23 January 2026