2/18/2026 4:49:07 PM Upper Tribunal clarifies application of Mixed Member Rules in Boston Consulting Group By Gideon Sanitt Kate Ison Bezhan Salehy Victoria Braid +1 more... Show less The Upper Tribunal has overturned a decision of the First-tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) by concluding that the Mixed Member Rules (MMRs)...
1/27/2026 6:16:07 PM Finding the Natural Balance: public law arguments and disclosure in the FTT By Gideon Sanitt Sophie Rhind Recent developments in case law mean there has been an increased appetite to pursue public law arguments before the First-tier Tribunal...
1/23/2026 11:15:06 AM APR and BPR reform: useful improvements, but no general U turn By Mark Hunter Clare Wilson In their current form, agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) provide relief from UK inheritance tax...
1/22/2026 11:17:07 AM Tax Disputes newsletter - January 2026 By Gideon Sanitt Sarah Ling Jackelyn West Last January we wrote about how everything felt a bit “déjà vu” – with Trump about to enter the White House for a second term, and an...
1/16/2026 4:15:36 PM Employment tax update - January 2026 By Robert Collard Lika Jatoeva This bulletin follows the release of the December and January Agent Updates (Issue 138 and Issue 139). In these issues we cover the...
1/15/2026 12:11:14 PM Supreme Court denies VAT recovery on costs relating to sale of a subsidiary company By Chris Mortimer Lucy Green Overview In a significant decision for corporate groups undergoing restructuring, the Supreme Court has confirmed that VAT on...
1/15/2026 9:05:37 AM Countdown to the International Controlled Transactions Schedule – how UK businesses can prepare for new transfer pricing reporting requirements By Sarah Ling Wai Wan With the rise and rapid adoption of advanced data analytics and AI tools, transfer pricing compliance and risk assessment is quickly...
12/18/2025 4:03:07 PM Fireworks for fiduciaries? Bonfire night judgment raises questions about Trustees’ behaviour in litigation By Jacob Ward Emma Cohen Joshua Rutt Macfarlanes has successfully obtained an order forcing two trustees, Christopher Burgess and Redshank Business Services Limited, to...
12/18/2025 12:28:08 PM Trade benefit test: a win for the taxpayer in Boulting v HMRC By Sarah Ling Ellen Wildig Share buybacks can be an important tool for shareholders to extract value and for companies to remove shareholders. For individual...
12/4/2025 3:16:07 PM Employment tax update - November 2025 By Robert Collard Lika Jatoeva This bulletin follows the release of the November Agent Update (Issue 137). In this issue we cover the content most relevant to...
12/4/2025 10:52:37 AM New HMRC reward scheme for whistleblowers introduced By Gideon Sanitt Helen Harvey Victoria Braid Amy Daubeney +1 more... Show less The Government has introduced a new ‘strengthened reward scheme’ to incentivise informants to report serious tax avoidance or evasion to...
11/28/2025 11:48:38 AM The Autumn Budget 2025: Business Tax perspective By Gregory Price Sarah Ling Rhiannon Kinghall Were The Budget was relatively quiet on corporate tax. That reflects the Government’s Corporate Tax Roadmap (the Roadmap), which, while not...
11/27/2025 6:12:38 PM The Autumn Budget 2025: measures to close the tax gap By Gideon Sanitt Sophie Rhind After all the leaks and speculation, the Autumn Budget 2025 is here, bringing with it a forecast that promises an all-time high tax take...
11/27/2025 5:46:37 PM Autumn Budget 2025 By David Gauke This was a Budget that was heavily trailed (to the extent that the contents were inadvertently published by the Office for Budget...
11/27/2025 4:56:39 PM The Autumn Budget 2025 - Employment Tax perspective By Robert Collard Edward Hughes Lika Jatoeva The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, announced several updates from an employment tax perspective in the Autumn Budget, the...
11/19/2025 4:27:07 PM Transfer pricing: new HMRC guidance raises the bar for benchmarking studies By Sarah Ling Wai Wan For the longest time, what many consider the poster child of transfer pricing (TP), the humble benchmarking study, has been commoditised,...