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Jolyon Maugham QC (The Good Law Project) explains why he has issued proceedings in the High Court against Uber to ensure that it pays VAT on supplying transportation services.
 
In Scambler v HMRC, the Upper Tribunal sets out when it is permissible to look to the previous legislation to help interpret Tax Law Rewrite statutes. Rupert Shiers and Julian Brown (Hogan Lovells) review the decision.
 
Adam Craggs and Michelle Sloane (RPC) review the recent High Court judgment in Archer which dismissed a judicial review application on grounds the taxpayer should have appealed to the First-tier Tribunal.
 
The Supreme Court has held that a customer overcharged VAT by a supplier will not, generally, have a restitutionary right to recover that overcharged VAT from HMRC. Nick Skerrett and Gary Barnett (Simmons & Simmons) analyse the decision.
 

Tom Wesel (Milestone International Tax Partners) believes that the Supreme Court should uphold the appeal by the liquidators of Rangers Football Club in what can be argued as an unjust and selective re-interpretation of the law.

Katie Stephen and Angela Savin (Norton Rose Fulbright) review a recent judgment on legal advice privilege and its relevance to HMRC information requests.

Rupert Shiers and Graham Poole (Hogan Lovells) review the likely areas for disputes in the coming year.

Aisling Donohue (mgpartners) provides an Irish perspective on one of the largest ever tax disputes to be heard by a European Court.
 
Vinny McCullagh (Grant Thornton) reviews a tribunal’s interpretation of the anti-avoidance provisions of VATA 1994 Sch 10.
 

Vinny McCullagh (Grant Thornton) reviews Heating Plumbing Supplies Ltd where the court decided that a VAT group’s activities must be taken as a whole.

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