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ANTI-AVOIDANCE


Nick Cronkshaw and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) provide your monthly review of the VAT developments that matter.
 
Andrew Solomon and Donald L. Korb (Sullivan & Cromwell) discuss the recent US Treasury regulations on two of the US tax reform’s most significant provisions.
Since the election, uncertainty now surrounds the direction of UK tax policy. Ashley Greenbank (Macfarlanes) makes some tentative predictions as to what the next five years might bring.
 

The tribunal has issued its decision in Ingenious Film Partners 2 LLP.  Gideon Sanitt (Macfarlanes) reviews the consequences of that decision for investors.

Arabella Murphy (Maurice Turnor Gardner) considers the judgment in Bainbridge, where an application to rescind mistaken transfers of farmland to a trust was complicated by the fact that some of the land had been sold.  

Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho (39 Essex Chambers) reviews a recent European Commission Communication which includes guidance on its application of the notion of state aid to tax.
 
Michael Brady and Shraddha Rajdev (KPMG) argue that the option to tax anti-avoidance rules catch innocent transactions and yet don’t always catch avoidance. Is it time for a rethink?
 

Taxpayers should think about the consequences before agreeing to HMRC’s latest initiative to further influence taxpayer behaviour, writes Michael Avient (UHY Hacker Young).

Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, answers questions on tax competitiveness and tackling avoidance.
 
Card image Michael McGowan Andrew Thomson Emma Hardwick

Michael McGowan, Andrew Thomson and Emma Hardwick (Sullivan & Cromwell) review Action 6 of the BEPS report.

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