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Dominic Stuttaford and Sofia Casselbrant-Multala (Norton Rose Fulbright) review the NICs treatment of bonus payments by LLP to former employees who subsequently become members.
The General Court’s decision shows the difficulties the European Commission faces in proving selective tax advantages that may constitute unlawful state aid, write George Peretz QC and Tarlochan Lall (Monckton Chambers).
The scope of negative earnings is almost certainly wider than has generally been appreciated, writes Nigel Doran (Macfarlanes).
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.
Contrary to HMRC’s guidance and CEST tool, mutuality of obligation is pivotal to determining employment status in surprising ways. Derek Francis (Terra Firma Chambers) examines cases showing how.
Sometimes you can be too relaxed.
Matthew Harrison (Withers) examines the Upper Tribunal decision concerning the registered pension scheme regime.
The unsatisfactory truth. 
Dominic Stuttaford and Susie Brain (Norton Rose Fulbright) examine the Court of Appeal decision.
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