The total recorded yield from HMRC settlements relating to controlled foreign companies legislation in the financial years 2007/08 to 2009/10 is estimated at £719 million, David Gauke said in a Commons written answer.
A new section of the Spotlights page features schemes where taxpayers ‘have conceded and paid the tax they had tried to avoid,’ HMRC announced.
HMRC has emphasised that it never ‘approves’ tax avoidance schemes. Some promoters or introducers for certain schemes are advertising products as ‘HMRC approved’, the department said.
The Corporation Tax Act 2010 (Amendment) Order, SI 2010/2902, corrects minor errors in some CTA 2010 consequential amendments and transitional provisions, and restores the law to its position before CTA 2010. The Acts affected are CTA 2009, CTA 2010 itself and TCGA 1992.
David Sproul will become the next Chief Executive and Senior Partner of Deloitte.
Sproul, who is currently Managing Director of Deloitte’s Tax practice in the UK and Europe, and a member of the firm’s Executive and Board, will succeed John Connolly on 1 June 2011.
Tax advisers have warned that uncertainty caused by a general anti-avoidance rule could harm the UK’s competitiveness.
City A.M. reported (8 December) that ‘Kraft has asked for police advice to protect its factories from protesters after City A.M. revealed it may be targeted for moving parts of its business offshore’.
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Peter Cussons on the foreign branch exemption
The Treasury has published tables of income tax rates and allowances, NIC rates and limits, and tax credits rates and thresholds for the tax year 2011/12.