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Tax in 2024 and beyond
Bill Dodwell
Increased digital reporting, the implementation of Pillar Two, potential further reforms to pensions tax... Bill Dodwell, former Tax Director of the Office of Tax Simplification, looks at what’s in store for tax in the year ahead.
Other cases that caught our eye: 28 July 2023
Petroleum revenue tax (PRT) and subsidiary argumentIn HMRC v Perenco UK Ltd [2023] UKUT 169 (TCC) (19 July 2023), the UT dismissed HMRC's appeal against the FTT decision. Consequently, expenditure incurred by the taxpayer during the relevant period...
Untangling the tax spaghetti bowl: a look back at the OTS
Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell (OTS) looks back at the work of the Office of Tax Simplification.
What next for the OTS?
Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell (Office of Tax Simplification) provides an update on the OTS’s latest work.
Private client review for May 2021
Pippa Goodfellow
Edward Reed
Edward Reed and Pippa Goodfellow (Macfarlanes) provide this month’s
review of private client developments that matter.
The OTS: the story so far
Bill Dodwell
Bill Dodwell, tax director of the Office of Tax Simplification, considers the OTS's role in the tax
landscape since its establishment in 2010.
OTS proposes IHT shake-up of lifetime gifts
The latest OTS report on IHT explores complexities and technical issues around gift exemptions, lifetime gifts, and distortions in the way business property relief and agricultural property relief operate.
Simplifying the UK tax system
Sarah Squires
Sarah Squires (Old Square Tax Chambers) reports on a Tax Journal event where the OTS shared its mission to make it easier to compute and pay tax.
Simplification: what’s coming next?
Paul Morton
Paul Morton (The Office of Tax Simplification) sets out the OTS’s programme of work for 2018 and invites feedback from readers.
Streamlining corporation tax
John Whiting CBE
John Whiting (Office of Tax Simplification) outlines the OTS’s new project on reviewing the corporation tax computation.
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The UK’s tax certainty problem
Jenny Batchelor
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Ahmed Mobasshir
1 /7
HMRC’s status in Part 26A restructuring plans: the High Court decision in Waldorf
Alan Rafferty
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Jade Du Berry
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Ollie Winters
2 /7
Ask an expert: Dividend planning under the new close company reporting regime
Nick Wright
3 /7
Loopholes and tax avoidance
Kyle Rainsford
4 /7
Spare us the cUTTer
Nick Thornton
5 /7
PGMOL: where the FTT decision may be vulnerable on appeal
Rebecca Seeley Harris
6 /7
Muller: notional companies and real-world transactions
Ashley Greenbank
7 /7
The UK’s tax certainty problem
Jenny Batchelor
,
Ahmed Mobasshir
HMRC’s status in Part 26A restructuring plans: the High Court decision in Waldorf
Alan Rafferty
,
Jade Du Berry
Ask an expert: Dividend planning under the new close company reporting regime
Nick Wright
Loopholes and tax avoidance
Kyle Rainsford
Spare us the cUTTer
Nick Thornton
PGMOL: where the FTT decision may be vulnerable on appeal
Rebecca Seeley Harris
Muller: notional companies and real-world transactions
Ashley Greenbank
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HMRC v HFFX LLP; Atkins and others v HMRC
The Trustees of the Panico Panayi Accumulation and Maintenance Settlements Nos. 1 to 4 v HMRC and Redevco Properties UK 1 Ltd v HMRC
Other cases that caught our eye: 26 June 2026
HMRC v Bolt Services UK Ltd
Barclays Bank plc v HMRC
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Solving the LLC double taxation problem
AI in R&D advisory: seven control points
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Management rollovers and share-for-share exchange relief
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Foreign PE exemption becoming mandatory
HMRC v GCH Corporation Ltd and others
HMRC consult on taxation of UK-resident members of LLCs and other ‘reverse hybrids’