Supreme Court ruling against Rangers’ EBT planning
HMRC has won its battle with Rangers over the club’s use of Employee Benefit Trusts with a verdict that could have a profound effect on similar tax avoidance schemes.
HMRC has won its battle with Rangers over the club’s use of Employee Benefit Trusts with a verdict that could have a profound effect on similar tax avoidance schemes.
HMRC are continually refining the terms under which they calculate settlements on tax planning arrangements. Here we take a look at the latest situation based on our experience in reaching settlements for clients.
The parliamentary briefing paper “Tax Avoidance: recent developments” provides an introduction to the issue of tax avoidance, the development of legislation to combat avoidance and more recent developments, including an overview of the provisions removed from the Finance Act 2017 before enactment due to the calling of the general election.
We’re often asked what difference we can make to clients settling tax strategies with HMRC given settlement terms are fixed. Here we take a look at a recent case the team managed which had a beneficial outcome for the client.
HMRC is continuing in its efforts to increase tax collection and is putting pressure on businesses they consider to owe outstanding tax based on previous tax planning arrangements.
The new Serial Tax Avoidance regime is set to increase pressure on taxpayers to reach settlement on and tax avoidance arrangements used in previous years.
People who previously invested in film finance schemes have received letters from HMRC’s counter-avoidance unit offering them an opportunity to settle what has been a long-running tax dispute over the validity of the tax schemes. In their letter HMRC state that they are offering investors the opportunity to avoid further investigation and what could be substantial costs […]
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