PENSIONS INVESTMENTS

Practitioner views on the Autumn Statement:

• Helen Lethaby (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) examines the impact on big business;
• Simon McKie (McKie & Co) reviews the private client perspective;
• James Bullock (Pinsent Masons) considers enforcement and compliance issues;
• David Whiscombe (BKL Tax) assesses the impact on SMEs;
• John Whiting (OTS) gives the Office of Tax Simplification’s view; and
• John Hawksworth (PwC) provides an economic perspective.

Andrew Goldstone (Mishcon de Reya) examines the government’s long awaited final proposals for CGT on non-UK residents owning UK residential property.

Pension schemes in the UK could be about to benefit from a £2bn VAT ‘windfall’ as HMRC implements two European Court decisions relating to the management, administration and investment activities of occupational pension schemes, Baker Tilly said.

Peter Halford (PwC Legal) reviews the decision in Trigg v HMRC, where the FTT held that euro redenomination clauses did not deprive bonds of QCB status.

Are bonds which may be redenominated in euros QCBs?

Andrew Goldstone and Stuart Crippin (Mishcon de Reya) give an update on recent developments, including: Spanish inheritance tax refunds, pensions changes, and the cases of Hirst and Drown and another (as executors of Leadley deceased).

The Taxation of Pensions Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 14 October 2014.

Validity of a discovery assessment

Free movement of capital and the taxation of foreign holdings