The Dutch ministry of finance has issued a statement confirming that the Netherlands will be appealing the European Commission’s ruling in October that the country provided state aid to Starbucks Manufacturing EMEA BV.
HMRC visited KPMG’s Belfast offices and arrested four partners in connection with suspected tax evasion, reported the BBC last week. Eamonn Donaghy (head of tax in Belfast), Paul Hollway (head of corporate finance in Ireland), Jon D’Arcy and Arthur O’Brien were arrested last Wednesday.
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HMRC is unable to answer FOI request on the Lagarde list, writes John Barnett (Burges Salmon).
Tony Beare (Slaughter and May) examines the recent eagerly anticipated First-tier Tribunal decision of Next Brand Ltd v HMRC on dividend boosters.
According to Baker Tilly, more than 6,000 tax defaulters were referred to a special HMRC monitoring unit in 2014/15 – a 30% increase on the year before – in a sign that HMRC is getting much tougher on those who deliberately seek to default on their tax liabilities.
City law firm RPC has said there has been a 29% rise in the number of tax investigations into internationally mobile high earners by HMRC in the last year, and that the firm ‘does not expect any let up in HMRC’s investigations of this class of high earners’.
The Bribery Act has laid the foundation for a new criminal offence, which will require corporates to conduct ever greater levels of due diligence, says Jason Collins (Pinsent Masons)
Shiv Mahalingham and Danny Beeton (Duff & Phelps) revisit the legislation, case law and HMRC practice relating to discovery assessments to discover what they will mean for taxpayers