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UK practitioners increasingly advise US citizens who are resident in the UK and operate through UK private limited companies.

Supply chain transformation – the strategic redesign of how goods are sourced, produced, moved and delivered – has become a board-level priority for multinational businesses over the past decad

The concept of what constitutes a trade is a fundamental question in UK tax law, forming the basis of many disputes between taxpayers and HMRC since tax was first levied on profits.

Partial exemption is one of the trickiest and most misunderstood areas of VAT. It governs how much VAT a business can recover and sits at the crossroads of compliance and complexity.

After months of speculation, the UK government’s much-trailed Budget was finally delivered at the end of November.

When VAT replaced purchase tax in 1973, following the UK’s entry into what was then known as the European Economic Community (the forerunner of the European Union), we were assured that it woul

In my October 2020 article ‘On the way to the forum’, I looked at an unsuccessful judicial review claim reported as R (oao Boulting) v HMRC [2020] EWHC 2207 (Admin).

In September 2025, former England and Liverpool footballer John Barnes was declared bankrupt following a petition by HMRC.

Every tax professional I speak to feels the same tension. On one hand, there’s relentless pressure to ‘do something with AI’.

I wrote in the September 2024 edition of ‘Tax Adviser’ about the Court of Appeal’s decision in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust [2024] EWCA Civ 177 and its potentially profo