Mark Agnew and Arianne Wijdeveld (Baker & McKenzie) consider the impact that the Skandia decision will have for financial services groups in the UK.
The CJEU has held that reverse charge VAT is due where an overseas entity recharges costs to a branch registered within a VAT group, in a decision that sits uncomfortably with the principle in FCE Bank. Nick Skerrett and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) consider the implications.
There have been two conflicting tribunal decisions on the recovery of overpaid VAT where a company either later joined or left a VAT group. Nick Skerrett and Gary Barnett analyse the decisions in Standard Chartered and MG Rover Group
Peter Mason answers a query on the problems with VAT groups in the case of a US banking client.
Gary Campbell provides a brief overview of the AG opinion in Skandia America Corporation USA, on the treatment of transactions in a VAT group with overseas members
Gary Richards considers the impact of the First-tier Tribunal decision in Intelligent Managed Services
Lee Squires and Fiona Bantock review the recent VAT decisions in Esporta (VAT on late paid gym fees); Simpson & Marwick (bad debt relief); PPG Holdings (deductibility of pension fund costs) and Commission v UK (VAT grouping infraction proceedings)