In HMRC v Nicolette Vivian Pawson (Deceased) [2013] UKUT 050 (TCC) the Upper Tribunal (UT) decided that a furnished holiday letting (FHL) business did not qualify for IHT Business Property Relief (BPR). All is not lost for FHL owners, more actively run businesses should still qualify for relief.
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It was revealed on BBC Newsnight last night that Ed Lester chief executive of the Student Loans Company has been receiving his civil service salary via a service company in order to avoid PAYE. He is not the only one...
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) have expressed disappointment at the approval by Parliament of a measure which will impose significant additional burdens on some small firms.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) do not agree with HMRC in its analysis as to how the new proposals for legislating ESC C16 on 1 March 2012 will work.
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) have expressed concern as to the benefit of introducing a General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) into the UK’s tax code.
HMRC will not be charging penalties for late filing of SA returns on 1 or 2 of February 2012 because of strike action.
Changes to leavers tax codes for share based payments -
From 6 April 2012
The 0T tax code, and not code BR, should be used on a non-cumulative basis to deduct tax on share-based payments made to an employee after cessation of employment and which have not been included in the form P45.
HMRC has included some draft Q & A on these proposals for share based payements.
Source: HMRC
In an effort to establish value for money for taxpayers, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has called for independent scrutiny of HMRC’s high value settlements with large corporates.
PA Holdings v HMRC: the Court of Appeal decided that when a bonus is structured as dividends it can be taxed as employment earnings for both PAYE and NICs. The company withdrew its appeal to the Supreme Court on 11 April 2013.
HMRC is lodging an appeal against the recent decision of the First Tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) concerning late P35 penalties in HOK Limited v HMRC [2011] UKFTT (TC01286).