Market leading insight for tax experts
View online issue

CORPORATE TAXES


Card image Stuart Pibworth Will Smith Leonard Ng Chris Brause
Will Smith, Leonard Ng, Chris Brause and Stuart Pibworth (Sidley Austin) review recent developments within the investment funds industry which faces numerous challenges in the form of UK and international tax initiatives, as well as ongoing regulatory change.
 
Following HMRC’s recent consultation paper and proposed response document and draft legislation ahead of the Autumn Statement, Peter Kiernan and Manraj Somal (KPMG) answer questions on plans to make corporations criminally liable for tax evasion.
 

HMRC has opened its new ‘payrolling benefits-in-kind’ online service to employers for registration. Employers wishing to use the online service in 2016/17 to payroll employee expenses and benefits in place of submitting forms P11D must register by 5 April 2016.

TAXE Committee gives multinationals ‘one more chance’ to turn up, reports Tim Law (Engaged Consulting)

Global social network Facebook came under fire in the media over the revelation that it paid just £4,327 ($6,643) in corporation tax in 2014, according to its latest UK results filed at Companies House. However, Facebook UK also reported a pre-tax...

Depreciation of goodwill and freedom of establishment

OECD recommendations hailed as ‘important milestone’, and the challenge now is to ensure measures are implemented consistently and coherently.

Andrew Marr (Forbes Dawson) answers a query on the tax treatment of a capital reduction on a share for share exchange. 
 

On 17 September, a Public Bill Committee agreed amendments to clause 9, increasing the IHT nil-rate band for main residences passed to direct descendants, with amendments clarify the types of trust through which property may be treated as inherited, and the definition of ‘closely inherited’.

MPs considered the Finance Bill in a Committee of the whole House on Tuesday 8 September 2015.

EDITOR'S PICKstar
Top