The Treasury Sub-Committee's new report 'Disputing Tax' focuses on its two ongoing tax-related inquiries, covering the steps that HMRC has taken to address public concerns around tax avoidance and evasion and HMRC’s approach to conducting tax enquiries and resolving tax disputes and makes new recommendations to HMRC and to the professional bodies.
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Missed our SME Tax Web-updates in July? Here is a summary of the month.
Dropbox deleted our data and then restored it with the wrong dates. Users of Dropbox need to be aware that the service has a massive flaw. If things go wrong and you have to restore lost data, it will re-date all your files and folders to the date of restoration.
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This time: how did Entrepreneurs' Relief become quite so complicated? Company cars, gifting shares, capital allowances and VAT and special offers.
HMRC have issued a policy paper ‘Technical and procedural amendments to the General Anti-Abuse Rule’ on proposals for HMRC to issue notices to taxpayers refusing to co-operate with them by withholding information about tax arrangements.
In Kickabout Productions Limited v HMRC [2019] TC7230 the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) narrowly decided that for the purposes of the hypothetical employment contract requirement of IR35, that radio broadcaster Paul Hawksbee would not have been an employee of TalkSPORT. This decision was overturned by the Upper Tribunal in July 2020.
In Langford v Secretary of State for Defence 2019 EWCA Civ 1271 the Court of Appeal ruled that a cohabitant could claim her partner’s RAF pension death benefits despite being married to someone else.
In a recent meeting of the House of Lords Economic affairs committee the Financial Secretary to the Treasury Jesse Norman MP was quizzed about the disguised remuneration loan charge.
Eight new tax plans from the new UK prime minister, Boris Johnson. Number 5 is the most interesting for SME owners.
The government has now released its response to the draft legislation issued in 2018 for the creation, to take effect from 2021, of a register of beneficial owners of overseas entities owning UK property.