In Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited and Maersk Oil UK Limited v HMRC [2018] TC06295, the First Tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) held that an allocation of profits within a period had simply to be made on a just and reasonable basis: the existence of a better method was not sufficient reason to displace it.
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Andrew Griffiths , the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has confirmed that the government will establish a public register of beneficial owners of non-UK entities that own or buy UK property, or which participate in UK Government procurement.
HMRC have agreed new fraud prevention measures with the tax bodies in order to verify a caller's ID when an HMRC employee contacts a tax agent.
Scottish Income Tax Rates for 2018-19 were announced during the Scottish Budget on 15 December 2017 but have already been increased.
In John Hicks v HMRC [2018] TC06301, the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) held that HMRC did not meet the criteria for a discovery assessment when they tried to restrict the use of losses carried forward from a year under enquiry.
In Alan Nicholson v HMRC [2018] TC06293, the tribunal disallowed a sole trader's payments made to and on behalf of his son as wages, whilst at university: the expenditure was not wholly and exclusively incurred
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As a change from income tax self assessment, we have various cases and updates on the VAT side for you this week together with analysis of a long awaited Upper Tribunal decision on MSC providers, and we are also looking at year end tax planning.
In Christianuyi Limited & Others v HMRC [2018] UKUT10 the Upper Tribunal agreed that a Managed Service Company (MSC) Provider was ‘involved’ with the taxpayers' personal service companies and was subject to the MSC rules.