Many advisers appear to be adopting a contrived and narrow interpretation of the word ‘preferential’ in an attempt to provide commercial protection to EIS investors on a winding-up, warns Oliver Twentyman (Azets).
A recent High Court decision provides valuable guidance for taxpayers seeking to challenge enforcement action taken by HMRC’s Debt Management team, write Michelle Sloane and Daniel Williams (RPC).
They think it’s all over, it is now! Sophie Dworetzsky and Dominic Lawrance (Charles Russell Speechlys) comment on the end of the remittance basis, the ‘absolute mess’ that is the double remittance situation and a potentially worrying change in HMRC’s view on the taxation of capital payments in ancillary relief on divorce.