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Avoiding mistakes and costs when deregistering from VAT
Rob Janering
If not planned properly, deregistering for VAT can lead to significant
administrative and cost burdens. Rob Janering (Crowe UK) considers how to
avoid these.
Navigating recovery of VAT on deal fees
Jonny Squires
Maximising recovery of VAT on deal fees requires careful practical structuring
around the specific facts and real substance behind the legal documentation,
writes Jonny Squires (Osborne Clarke).
Competing views on the VAT exemption for medical care
Alex Spencer
Two recent cases demonstrate that the scope of the VAT exemption for health
and welfare is far from certain, writes Alex Spencer (Field Court Tax Chambers).
The VAT review for June 2025
Gary Barnett
Joao Martinho
This month’s review by Joao Martinho and Gary Barnett (Simmons &
Simmons) covers the Court of Appeal decision in
Impact Contracting
Solutions
and two recent cases on the meaning of consideration.
The Court of Appeal’s real-world view on the exemption for insurance intermediary services
Dr Michael Taylor
Dr Michael Taylor (PwC) considers whether Henderson LJ’s judgment in
WTGIL could bring all sorts of intermediary services back within the scope of
the VAT insurance exemption.
VAT and the management of Special Investment Funds: the last six years
Alex Tostevin
Etienne Wong
The application of this VAT exemption remains both complex and uncertain,
writes Alex Tostevin (Greenberg Traurig) and Etienne Wong (Old Square
Tax Chambers).
Equitable ownership and VAT: legal mysteries and potential answers
Fabian Barth
VAT law struggles to address the distinction between legal and equitable
ownership, but case law can provide some answers, writes Fabian Barth
(Alvarez & Marsal).
The VAT review for May 2025
Gary Barnett
Jo Crookshank
VAT developments concerning transfer pricing adjustments, tripartite
arrangements and the Tour Operators Margin Scheme are examined in this
month’s review by Jo Crookshank and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons).
FA 2025 review: VAT on private school fees: a lack of clarity
Etienne Wong
On its face, the new legislation imposing VAT on the provision of education by a private school seems straightforward well put-together, even. It takes little time to realise, however, that perhaps the Government should have taken a couple...
The VAT review for April 2025
Katie Oliver
Gary Barnett
Katie Oliver and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) review the latest
decisions on VAT recovery and an AG opinion on the application of market
value provisions in the VAT Directive.
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EDITOR'S PICK
Spare us the cUTTer
Nick Thornton
1 /7
PGMOL: where the FTT decision may be vulnerable on appeal
Rebecca Seeley Harris
2 /7
Muller: notional companies and real-world transactions
Ashley Greenbank
3 /7
Burlington: towards an international fiscal meaning of ‘main purpose’
Kyle Rainsford
4 /7
Is a loan earnings? Revisiting Rangers
Dominic Stuttaford
,
Katharine Wadia
5 /7
Qualifying Asset Holding Companies: don’t let your ‘kwæk’ end up in the ‘kæk’
Nick Thornton
6 /7
Freedom (of information) is a noble thing: HMRC, tax and the limits of transparency
Hartley Foster
7 /7
Spare us the cUTTer
Nick Thornton
PGMOL: where the FTT decision may be vulnerable on appeal
Rebecca Seeley Harris
Muller: notional companies and real-world transactions
Ashley Greenbank
Burlington: towards an international fiscal meaning of ‘main purpose’
Kyle Rainsford
Is a loan earnings? Revisiting Rangers
Dominic Stuttaford
,
Katharine Wadia
Qualifying Asset Holding Companies: don’t let your ‘kwæk’ end up in the ‘kæk’
Nick Thornton
Freedom (of information) is a noble thing: HMRC, tax and the limits of transparency
Hartley Foster
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Queenscourt Ltd v HMRC
Re Waldorf Production UK plc
H Gwyn-Jones v HMRC
Other cases that caught our eye: 29 May 2026
HC-One No 1 Ltd v HMRC
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HMRC clarify CIS financing positions
TP adjustments and VAT: lessons from Stellantis Portugal
Updating the obsolete
The growing problem of the personal allowance phase down
Situs: loan notes
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HC-One No 1 Ltd v HMRC
Take 3.9 TV Partnership and others v HMRC
When Homer nods: the rise of the Inco principle in tax
The growing problem of the personal allowance phase down
Trustees IHT exposure from 6 April 2025