Publications

Carney expects house prices to rise 10% over next two years

‘Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, has told MPs on the...

Tax Journal: Boyle and contractor loan schemes

Writing for Tax Journal, BKL tax partner David Whiscombe discusses Boyle, the First-tier Tribunal...

Rousing response to Cotter: more on carry-back claims

Hot on the heels of the Supreme Court decision in Cotter comes the Upper...

Peter and Paul: allocating tax payments

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

Partnership woes: recent announcements

As well as the changes to “Mixed” (and perhaps not-so-mixed) Partnerships to which we...

New rules imposing PAYE on LLP profit shares

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

Autumn Statement: every little helps

While there is nothing in the Statement to send SMEs into frenzies of delight,...

Miliband attacks housebuilders … housebuilders hit back

Ed Miliband has accused Britain’s biggest housebuilders, Barratt, Berkeley, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey, of...

Property Prices Rising

‘The latest data from LSL Property Services/Acadata House Price Index reveals that average house...

Taxation of Corporate Partnerships

Partnerships or LLPs which include among their members one or more companies (“Corporate Partnerships”)...

Autumn Statement 2013: Chancellor targets £9bn avoidance tax grab

BKL tax partner David Whiscombe comments in The Telegraph about how the government is...

Boyle’s law: Offshore contractor scheme

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