HMRC is consulting on proposals changes to the taxation of interest received, and rules on the deduction of tax from interest paid.
HMRC is seeking views on proposed changes to the income tax and corporation tax rules on manufactured payments, which the department describes as ‘amounts representative of interest or dividends paid and received under financial arrangements such as sale and repurchase arrangements (“repos”) and
‘It looks to me like the triumph of big business – or rather the triumph of the Treasury's view of what big businesses need and want.
HM Treasury has invited comments on an ‘above the line’ research and development credit for large companies, to be introduced next year.
Companies should pay a fair rate of tax and ‘move vigorously towards the path of transparency’, the Labour peer and former newspaper publisher Lord Hollick told tax experts earlier this month, as campaigners renewed calls for country by country reporting (CBCR) by multinationals and claimed that
HMRC has published an ‘overview’ of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, which will provide tax reliefs for new shares issued on or after 6 April 2012 by small, ‘early stage’ companies. The reliefs will operate alongside the Enterprise Investment Scheme.
The European Commission has formally requested the UK to amend its legislation providing for ‘exit taxes’ on companies.
A targeted anti-avoidance rule intended to counter arrangements to secure a tax advantage in the transition to a new regime for life insurance companies will take effect from 21 March 2012 ‘because there is a significant risk to tax revenue arising from the transition’.
Proposed amendments to CAA 2001 will ensure that rules for calculating the lessee’s disposal value at the end of a long funding lease ‘operate as intended so that the relief available by way of capital allowances does not exceed the net expenditure of the lessee not otherwise relieved’.