LITIGATION

Advisers offering unsolicited tax advice can assume a duty of care. Stephen Smith reviews the Mehjoo decision regarding the limits of implied duties

Peter Vaines believes that the Court of Appeal has reached the right decision in the Mehjoo case.

HMRC ‘is up for a fight’, says James Bullock.

Pinsent Masons reports

Jackie Wheaton answers a query on the tax treatment of legal costs of an out of court settlement.

Gareth Miles and Richard Jeens consider two recent developments that may affect how taxpayers with apparently similar disputes to others decide what course of action to take

Liesl Fichardt reports on findings from a recent survey examining industry views on the competitiveness of the UK tax regime, reputational risk, disputes and HMRC practices

By Kate Ison & Aude Delechat, tax dispute resolution team, Berwin Leighton Paisner

When considering whether to bring an appeal before the tribunals, reputational risk and taxpayer confidentiality are increasingly likely to be at the forefront of taxpayers’ minds. Liesl Fichardt and Robert Sharpe examine how such risks may be mitigated.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) conducted a hearing into HMRC’s annual report and accounts for 2012/13 on Monday. During the often quite heated exchange, Edward Troup, HMRC’s tax assurance commissioner, told the PAC that the tax recovered from a...