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Corporate tax in 2020

Lydia Challen (Allen & Overy) reports on a year that has seen such extremes of drama and the mundane.

Concluding last year’s review and writing in the middle of the general election campaign Ashley Greenbank commented that whatever the result ‘one thing is certain there will be plenty to write about next year’ (‘Taxing times for corporates’ Tax Journal 13 December 2019). Prescient though he is I don’t suppose he quite had this year in mind.

January feels a lifetime ago. February saw the appointment of the third chancellor of the exchequer in seven months. March was a month of ‘firsts’: Rishi Sunak’s first budget (which was the first since 2018) shortly followed by the introduction of the first national lockdown against the coronavirus. Within weeks the Treasury and HMRC were putting together the various packages of financial support...

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