Publications

Peter and Paul: allocating tax payments

Where a client has a number of outstanding liabilities of which some are interest-bearing...

New rules imposing PAYE on LLP profit shares

Quite separately from the provisions on “mixed partnerships” (see here for our briefing), Finance Bill 2013...

Boyle’s law: Offshore contractor scheme

These schemes have been about for some years. The general idea is that you...

Auto Enrolment – Workplace Pensions

The biggest change to the pension system is now well underway and it is the...

RTI and withheld repayments

Some of the consequences of the introduction of PAYE “Real Time Information” are obvious....

Cotter pinned: carry-back claims

What is a tax return?  One cannot imagine a question much more fundamental to...

A fishy decision: take care with business sponsorship

It is probably no exaggeration to say that the Upper Tribunal decision in Interfish...

Pre-incorporation contracts

Sometimes legal formalities lag behind commercial agreements. The recent Tribunal case of Hepburn [2013]...

Boles Criticised Over Latest Proposals

‘Countryside campaigners have criticised ministers who are attempting to pressure councils into building more...

Robinsons – barely altered: VAT and SDLT on sale of let property

It’s always been accepted that the sale of a let property can, subject to...

The demise of Hastings-Bass: correcting trustee errors

Readers may recall our The Battle of Hastings–Bass piece (March 2011) about the cases of Pitt...

Multiple derivative actions and LLPs

We’re indebted to our friends at Olephant for an interesting update on derivative actions. Broadly speaking...