The Supreme Court has ruled that catalogue company Shop Direct Group (SDG) must pay corporation tax on a £125m VAT repayment relating to overpayments made over many years by companies in the Littlewoods corporate group which no longer trade, confirming earlier rulings handed down by the First Tier Tribunal, Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal, reports Pat Sweet

The First Tier Tribunal (FTT) has decided various preliminary issues concerning the interaction of self-assessment and corporation tax enquiries, penalty notices and possible criminal prosecution in a complex case concerning a Code of Practice 9 (COP9) enquiry involving the director of a company called Gold Nuts Ltd who strongly denied any wrongdoing

Ahead of tomorrow’s session of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is set to examine the recent £130m deal with Google to settle back tax, HMRC has published a factsheet outlining its approach to handling the tax affairs of large companies, saying it wants to ‘help dispel myths’ which have arisen about how HMRC ensures compliance among multinationals

HMRC forced to withdraw APNs against Montpelier IR35 schemes, digital tax accounts set to replace self assessment, Northern Ireland corporation tax , plus a roundup of tax cases including business expense deductions denied in Jain, share loss relief in Brown and penalty upheld for CIS returns 

Tax expert Yvette Nunn questions why HMRC in its wisdom changed the log-in procedures for the Government Gateway in the middle of the tax season, which happens at the same time every year and is hardly a surprise on the annual calendar, while the rush of pre-Budget consultations is yet another headache for tax advisers  

Government plans to simplify small company taxation and merge income tax and national insurance for individual taxpayers need to be logical and sensible to avoid creating yet further tax complexity, says Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at Deloitte

ICAEW and CIOT have flagged up serious concerns over the government’s plans to introduce new rules on interest deductions as part of moves to meet its commitments under the OECD’s action plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), suggesting that these risk disadvantaging UK business and may not be necessary

The latest CPD module from Accountancy Live focuses on incorporation and the key tax issues for business, topical in light of the changes to dividend taxation due to take effect from April 2016

The latest tax cases, judicial reviews and tax compliance from Ingenious film scheme given APN reprieve, PPR and second homes not ‘residence’ in Harrison, Ladbroke case on tax avoidance,  HMRC's move to digital tax accounts and quarterly reporting, and 10p rate set for Scottish rate of income tax

Multinational Starbucks has seen its UK arm pay £8.1m in corporation tax in 2015, almost equivalent to its entire tax payment over its first 14 years in the UK, after responding to pressure to scrap its complex tax structures and the decision to relocate its European HQ to the UK 

The UK’s biggest companies made a total tax contribution of £80.5bn this year, and are paying higher rates of tax than previously despite the continued reduction in the corporation tax rate, according to analysis by PwC for the 100 Group of finance directors which suggests property and employment taxes are becoming more significant