TAX-RELIEF

Kim Ashley

Clarification rather than a fundamental expansion of relief?

The UK’s legal framework offers statutory and non-statutory clearances, CCMs, APAs and the forthcoming Advance Tax Certainty Service, but these mechanisms fall short in practice, write Jenny Batchelor and Ahmed Mobasshir (Ryan).

Tim Sarson

Once again, the US dominates the international tax news cycle, reports Tim Sarson (KPMG).

Jenny Tragner

Jennifer Tragner (S&W) considers an unsettled year for R&D reliefs, where transitional rules, evolving guidance and emerging AI questions kept advisers busy despite few new policy changes.

David Milne KC

There will be the usual complaints about the tax burden on working people, but it is very modest compared with the 1960s and 1970s, when the top rate of income tax was still 98%, imposed to pay the USA for the monies lent to us for WW2. There will...

Philip Hare

Administrative errors can jeopardise SEIS and EIS relief, even when advance assurance has been received from HMRC, as Philip Hare (Philip Hare & Associates) explains.

Jenny Tragner

The rushed implementation of ERIS continues to demonstrate why legislation should be properly consulted on before implementation.

Dominic Mathon

Kate Murphy

A more ambitious approach to tax policy, informed by international best practices, could enhance the UK’s ability to convert its research prowess into commercial success, write Dominic Mathon and Kate Murphy (RELX).

Andrew Solomon

As the Senate prepares to take up President Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package, Andrew Solomon (Sullivan & Cromwell) considers its key provisions and what happens next.

Application on the ‘wholly and exclusively’ test of deductibility: The wholly and exclusively rule governing the deductibility of expenses has been part of the tax code since 1842, so it is more than a little surprising to find a taxpayer...

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