The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) have published two discussion papers on small company tax reform, ‘Lookthrough taxation’ and ‘Sole Enterprise with Protected Assets'.
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In The Personal Representatives of Michael Wood v HMRC [2016] UKUT 0346 the Upper Tribunal (UT) has held that a discovery assessment does not have to be set aside just because the taxpayer has died.
HMRC's online system for applications to protect the lifetime allowance is now up and running. Anyone who made a temporary application in April - July now has to make a full online application.
In Iveco Limited v HMRC [2017] EWCA Civ 1982 the Court of Appeal upheld the Upper Tribunal decision, that Iveco were out of time to reclaim output VAT overpaid before January 1990.
In ELS Group Limited v HMRC [2016] EWCA Civ 663 the Court of Appeal found that a VAT Extra Statutory Concession (ESC) could not be applied retrospectively.
The Leader of the House of Commons has confirmed that the Finance Bill 2016 will not receive Royal Assent until after the summer recess, with the remaining stages of the bill being considered in September.
HMRC have begun issuing their end of year tax reconciliations for 2015/16, and are expected to have sent around 6 million of these forms P800 to taxpayers by the end of November.
A summary of the new Treasury ministers following July 2016's post-referendum reshuffle.
In Leekes Limited v HMRC [2016] UKUT 0320 the Upper Tribunal (UT) held that losses do have to be streamed following a transfer of trade from one company to another.
HMRC has issued Spotlight 31: change of date for withdrawal of transitional relief on investment growth. This extends the date for withdrawal of disguised remuneration transitional relief to 31 March 2017.