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LOAN-CHARGE


David Southern QC (Temple Tax Chambers) examines where things stand following publication of the first batch of draft legislation that restricts the loan charge.
Restrictions to the charge are welcome, but the question still arises why there should be any retrospection at all.
The government has accepted many of the recommendations of Sir Amyas Morse’s independent report on the loan charge. David Pett (Temple Tax Chambers) examines the detail.
Rhys Thomas (WTT Consulting) welcomes restrictions to the loan charge, but argues that they don't go far enough and says a number of questions remain unaddressed.
Hugh Gunson (Charles Russell Speechlys) explains where things stand.
The loan charge has driven a coach and horses through the statutory safeguards, writes barrister Keith Gordon (Temple Tax Chambers). 

Despite the review being an important event, it appears to be very much business as usual at HMRC.

David Pett (Temple Tax Chambers) argues that outstanding loan charges should be pursued both as a matter of law and social policy.

While to some the arrival of the loan charge legislation feels like the beginning of the end of this saga, the reality may be that this is more like the end of the beginning, as Lisa Vanderheide and Sarah Stenton (Stewarts) explain.

The 2019 loan charge teaches us that there is more to statutory time limits than the technical analysis, write Richard Jeens and Rose Swaffield (Slaughter and May). 
 
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