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Anthony Nixon (Paris Smith) examines the first judicial ruling to accept that the double trust home loan scheme works to save inheritance tax.
Upper Tribunal finds home loan scheme effective.
Employee loan arrangements: FS Capital Ltd and others v A Adams and others [2025] EWCA Civ 53 (28 January) is yet another twist in the long saga of employee loan arrangements and their resolution. It is not a tax case as such but will be of interest...
Tanja Velling (Slaughter and May) reviews a significant FTT decision in which the taxpayers were denied interest deductions on a loan created in an intra-group reorganisation under the unallowable purpose rule.
FTT varies information notice.
Target Group, Vermilion and changes to HMRC’s guidance on the double tax treaty passport scheme are among the  developments examined by Mike Lane and Zoe Andrews (Slaughter and May).
Deepesh Upadhyay and Sean Wright (Eversheds Sutherland) review the Upper Tribunal’s decision in Hargreaves which considers withholding tax and interest payments.
Helen Buchanan and Sarah Bond (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) share their experience of the approach HMRC is taking to unallowable purposes enquiries, in particular under CTA 2009 s 441.
When structuring a UK acquisition, there are a myriad of tax issues to consider, as Helena Kanczula (BKL) explains.
David Southern QC (Field Court Tax Chambers) provides a guide to the tax consequences of loan transfers.
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