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HMRC-GUIDANCE


Identifying an occupation is a cornerstone of the sale of occupational income rules. As those rules are increasingly invoked by HMRC, Liesl Fichardt and Emily Au (Quinn Emanuel) examine the guiding principles to identify an occupation, profession and vocation, and highlight the areas of obscurity.
With HMRC’s scrutiny of taxpayers’ domicile status showing no signs of abating, Hugh Gunson and Louise Paterson (Charles Russell Speechlys) examine key lessons from recent case law.
New guidance has been issued on the conduct of proceedings in the Upper Tribunal. Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho (39 Essex Chambers) examines what’s changed.
Martin Shah (Simmons & Simmons) reviews HMRC’s latest guidance on whether employees of overseas entities working temporarily in the UK give rise to a UK permanent establishment.
Patrick Cannon (Cannon Chambers) examines a recent tribunal decision on self-assessed mixed-use SDLT and the broader issue of reliance on HMRC’s published guidance. 
Penny Simmons and Rachel McConnell (Pinsent Masons) focus on the uncertainties that exist regarding the application of the new rules and how these are impacting businesses.
This month’s private client update, by Edward Reed and Tristan Honeyborne (Macfarlanes).
On 2 September 2020, HMRC published Revenue & Customs Brief 12/2020 setting out a change in the VAT treatment of payments made in respect of contract terminations and contractual disputes. HMRC’s new general rule is that most such payments will be...
Helen Buchanan and John Tolman (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) discuss the published guidance that still leaves many key questions around the scope of DAC 6 reporting obligations.

Christine Yuill and Richard Croker (Pinsent Masons) discuss the VAT considerations in respect of lease variations as tenants seek to negotiate lower rental liabilities during Covid-19.

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