INPUT-TAX

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

HMRC not entitled to deny input tax.

CA rejects ‘floorspace’ based method of calculating input tax recovery

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...

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.

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).

Whether invoices described the supply sufficiently.

Pre-registration input tax recovery: Aspire in the Community Services Ltd v HMRC [2024] UKFTT 176 (TC) (27 February 2024) is a complex procedural dispute about pre-registration VAT recovery. A business has no automatic right to recover input tax on...

Accounting standards and taxable profit: In Hart St Maltings Ltd v HMRC [2023] UKFTT 860 (TC) (12 October 2023), a company was a small property developer that had purchased a building for conversion into two separate properties and at the end of the...