HMRC's latest Employment-Related Securities Bulletin contains some handy tips. Here is our enhanced version.
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Following the introduction of tax-free childcare for all from February 2018 the childcare voucher scheme was due to close to new entrants in April 2018; this has now been extended by six months.
In Conegate Limited v HMRC [2018] TC06340 the FTT denied a claim for capital loss relief: market value should have been applied to the disposal and one of the main purposes for entering into the transaction was to secure a tax advantage.
In City Shoes Wholesale Ltd & Ors v HMRC [2018] EWCA Civ 315 the Court of Appeal agreed there was no conspicuous unfairness leading to an abuse of power by HMRC in denying the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) to users of EBT schemes.
HMRC have issued the Agent Update for February/March 2018. We have summarised the key content for you with links to our detailed guidance on the topics covered.
Ex parte A Taxpayer v HMRC [2018] TC6330 considered HMRC's options in serving a third party information notice in respect of a PAYE/NIC enquiry on the accountant of a company that had gone into liquidation. The answer was to treat the company director as the taxpayer.
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In this web-update we look at HMRC's powers when it comes to issuing third party information notices to accountants, we feature our all new toolkits for non-residents with offshore property, non-UK domiciled taxpayers and much, much more.
In Roy Stanley v HMRC [2018] TC6199, a taxpayer was regarded as careless after supplying delayed and incomplete information to his agent. His agent also made share loss and negligible value claims out of time, despite being told that they were out of time by HMRC. The taxpayer was not penalised for his agent's actions.