5/15/2026 10:04:07 AM Relying on a tax treaty is not an abuse of law: lessons from the Lehman litigation By Elizabeth Keeling HMRC v Burlington Loan Management is an important Court of Appeal decision on the interpretation of double tax treaty anti-abuse articles...
5/6/2026 11:45:07 AM M R Currell Limited: a cautionary tale for HMRC By Kate Ison Sophie Rhind Tackling disguised remuneration (DR) has long been a focus for HMRC, and they have had significant success in the area, protecting...
4/29/2026 11:01:00 PM Evergreen fund models – comparative analysis By Pete Chapman Chris Daniel Richard Fletcher Lora Froud Christopher Good Harriet Miller Ryan Moore Stephen Ross +5 more... Show less We have advised on the launch of a significant number of evergreen funds in recent years, particularly in the private credit space. In...
4/23/2026 11:45:37 AM Tax investigations and disputes newsletter - April 2026 By Gideon Sanitt Kate Ison Sarah Ling Jackelyn West +1 more... Show less Spring has arrived, and with it a fresh burst of activity from HMRC and the Tax Tribunals. HMRC's compliance toolkit continues to...
4/22/2026 1:52:37 PM Three’s a crowd: HMRC’s approach to employee share plan arrangements in practice By Gideon Sanitt Robert Collard Jackelyn West We have seen a notable rise in HMRC targeting what may be regarded as relatively innocuous employee share plans under the so-called...
4/17/2026 9:45:07 AM Close companies, open books: HMRC consults on new reporting requirements for close companies By Sarah Ling Rhiannon Kinghall Were Vitalii Trachuk On 19 March 2026, HMRC published a consultation document titled "Reporting company payments to participators – modernising the reporting...
4/14/2026 9:05:37 AM Employment tax update - April 2026 By Robert Collard Lika Jatoeva This bulletin follows the release of the March Agent Update (Issue 141). In this issue we cover the content most relevant to employment...
3/27/2026 6:08:08 PM Government consults (again) on new regime for corporate redomiciliations into the UK By Max Mittasch Gregory Price Dominic Sedghi Rhiannon Kinghall Were Lucas Birrell-Gray +2 more... Show less The Government is consulting for the second time on introducing a new regime to allow companies formed outside the UK to “redomicile” by...
3/26/2026 4:02:09 PM Preventing unnecessary VAT leakage in a private capital setting By Chris Mortimer Lucy Green This is an updated version of our previous article that discusses ways to mitigate unnecessary VAT leakage in a private capital setting,...
3/18/2026 2:54:07 PM Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAP): OECD publishes new manual for effective international tax disputes By Sarah Ling Wai Wan Bahar Eken On 2 February 2026, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published an updated edition of the Manual on...
3/13/2026 10:25:36 AM Employment tax update - February 2026 By Robert Collard Lika Jatoeva This bulletin follows the release of the February Agent Updates (Issue 140). In this issue we cover the content most relevant to...
3/12/2026 3:13:36 PM HMRC’s tax adviser registration regime – delay for financial services businesses By James McCredie Rhiannon Kinghall Were The Government intends to introduce a new requirement for tax advisers who interact with HMRC on behalf of clients to register with HMRC...
3/4/2026 12:09:37 PM The Spring Statement 2026 - no tax rises or policy changes for private clients By Paul Hardwick Clare Wilson The Spring Statement was delivered to the UK Parliament yesterday (3 March 2026) by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. The...
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...