Bayo Randle (Devereux Chambers) considers techniques to avoid paying the full costs of bundle preparation, pending the Supreme Court appeal in Eclipse 35
Graham Elliott considers Secret Hotels2 concerning VAT and agency
The Supreme Court’s rejection of HMRC’s arguments for determining whether Secret Hotels2 Ltd was an intermediary or whether the company was ‘acting in its own name’, may now make it easier for some businesses to adopt an agency business model, writes Damon Wright
The NIC status of payments by an employer to a third party, such as a pension fund or insurance company, for an employee’s benefit has been litigated for over a decade and produced widely divergent judicial opinions. With the Supreme Court judgment in HMRC v Forde and McHugh Ltd, we now at last have clarity, say Dan Pipe and Nigel Doran
After 11 years of litigation, the Supreme Court has held that a claimant can make successive claims for cross-border group relief as long as they are not time barred. Simon Whitehead and Rachel Garwood review the decision and examine the implications
By BKL Tax, BrassTax News
David Whiscombe considers the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Cotter.
The Supreme Court decision in the civil case of Jones will herald a relaxation of the limitation on appeals to questions of law, and has already been wielded in recent tax cases, write Jolyon Maugham and Ryan Hawthorne
