Cash-based businesses: a claim that profits were overstated
Having just passed the 20th anniversary of the first of my monthly case reports and seeing that the official publication...
Taxing discretionary gifts to employees: OOCL UK Branch v HMRC
A payment made by an employer to an employee will usually be subject to tax as employment income and, in the case of a c...
Transfer of assets abroad: the boundaries of the rules
The transfer of assets abroad legislation (variously abbreviated to ToAA and TAA) was first enacted in 1936....
Vermilion Holdings: how a deeming provision works in the context of employment-related securities
The employment-related securities rules caused a lot of controversy when they were first announced in April 2003, just a...
Employee benefit trust arrangement: careless and deliberate conduct
The attempts of employees (typically, directors) to extract funds from their companies in a tax-efficient fashion and th...
Statutory residence test: the exceptional circumstances rule
In the July 2022 issue of Tax Adviser, I wrote about the anonymised First-tier Tribunal decision of A Taxpayer v HMRC [2...
Loss carry back rules: the case of Civic Environmental Systems
When writing this article, I was reminded of my article ‘What a carry back’ in the January 2020 issue of Tax Adviser....
Inheritance tax: the nuances of ‘interest in possession’
Before the sudden reforms of the inheritance tax rules in March 2006, there was a fundamental distinction between life-i...
Beneficial loans: the importance of getting your timing right
I can remember the first time that I came across an assessment in relation to a loan to a participator....
A yellow card for IR35? What the Lineker case means for HMRC
Ever since the infamous announcement following the 1999 Budget, the so-called IR35 legislation has rarely been outside t...