HMRC has put its business records checks programme on hold until a ‘revamped’ approach is launched ‘early in the 2012/13 financial year’.
‘Barclays has been warned that its reputation is being "tarnished" by the persistent use of "complicated financial structures" to boost profits.
HM Treasury has published an update and more draft legislation dealing with reform of the controlled foreign companies (CFC) rules. Two circumstances have been identified in which a full, rather than partial, finance company exemption will be offered.
An arrangement reported to allow the Student Loans Company's chief executive legally to avoid thousands of pounds in income tax and national insurance contributions will be unwound, a Treasury minister announced in the House of Commons this morning.
Nikhil Mehta and Gareth Miles review the impact of the decision of the Supreme Court, which held that Indian capital gains tax did not arise on an indirect transfer of shares in an Indian company.
Stock lending provides financial institutions with an increasingly important source of liquidity. Gillian Gall and Kevin Cummings explain the tax rules.
The draft anti-avoidance rule being considered by the government does not allay concerns over uncertainty and may disappoint public opinion, according to the Chartered Institute of Taxation.