The European Commission have approved the continued use of the UK's VAT fuel scale charge adjustment for private use of cars until 31 December 2020.
SME Tax News
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An interesting take on ADR and a look at take-aways and HMRC best judgement assessments this week, the close company case is overturned and the Budget is set for October.
In William Reeves v HMRC [2018] UKUT 293, the Upper Tribunal (UT) found that a non-resident taxpayer can gift a UK trading asset to a UK company he owns and claim holdover relief.
In 2017-18 companies paid the highest amount of Corporation Tax ever with receipts topping £56bn.
The government has announced plans to introduce a Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) surcharge for foreign buyers of UK property.
In The Serpentine Trust Ltd v HMRC [2018] TC06719 the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) held that an agreement reached with HMRC under Alternative Dispute Resolution was ultra vires; it was contrary to the law and unenforceable by the taxpayer.
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This time: interesting stats on R & D and Patent Box relief, more conundrums on late filing tax penalties and much more.
HMRC have released their latest statistics on Research & Development (R & D) tax relief. Of the 39,960 claims so far received for 2016-17, 34,060 are for the SME scheme and 5,900 in the RDEC scheme.