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Former ICAEW president Paul Aplin OBE looks at the government’s ten year strategy for HMRC’s digital services and administrative powers.
A recent Court of Appeal decision reaffirms HMRC’s right to conduct enquiries on an ‘informal’ premise even where there is no statutory basis, write Kate Ison and Jessica Hocking (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner).
The treatment of call options had been considered settled for over 40 years, but HMRC now wishes to reimagine it. Chris Nyland (Gowling WLG) analyses the merits of HMRC’s logic and its actions.
Sometimes you can be too relaxed.
The unsatisfactory truth. 
Your quarterly review of developments in the contentious tax world, by Adam Craggs and Constantine Christofi (RPC).
The tribunal decides it has jurisdiction to determine domicile in closure notice applications. 
HMRC is providing assistance where practicable and enforcement when necessary, write Andrew Sackey and Jason Collins (Pinsent Masons).

The recent tribunal decision in Credit Suisse Securities provides important guidance on when notice of enquiry is and is not given, as Richard Jeens and Tom Windsor (Slaughter and May) explain.

Andrew Sackey (Pinsent Masons) reflects on how HMRC has learnt the art of collaboration to deliver an increasingly joined up and globally consistent compliance message.
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