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Tax and the City review for September 2020

The latest developments that matter, reviewed by Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May).

Irish Bank: attribution of notional capital to permanent establishment

HMRC continues its winning streak in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and another v HMRC [2020] EWCA Civ 1128 an important case on the interaction of UK domestic legislation with double tax treaties. The Court of Appeal agrees with the Upper Tribunal (UT) that HMRC’s attribution of notional capital to a UK permanent establishment (PE) of an Irish bank pursuant to UK domestic legislation is compatible with the UK/Republic of Ireland double tax convention (‘the UK/RI DTC’).

The taxpayers IBRC and Irish Nationwide were companies resident in the Republic of Ireland and both traded in the UK through a PE at the relevant time. The taxpayers were therefore chargeable to UK corporation tax on the profits attributed to their respective UK...

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