A pair of Birmingham restaurateurs manipulated till receipts to suppress takings and reduce their VAT bill but failed to win an appeal at the First Tier Tribunal as their claims were not ‘credible’
After the First Tier Tribunal sided with the two non-doms, HMRC has lost an appeal at the Upper Tribunal over whether tax was payable on the remittance basis
A landmark case at the First Tier Tribunal, Elphysic & Ors, about umbrella companies revealed thousands have been set up to fraudulently claim tax advantages, warns Scott Harwood, partner at RSM
A top legal adviser to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has indicated that businesses using UK controlled foreign companies regime did not break EU state aid rules
An insurance intermediary providing a telematics device for inexperienced drivers cannot reclaim VAT for over £2m after losing a dispute over group VAT liability
A former US citizen has lost a claim at the High Court, funded by a secret backer, that HMRC breached the taxpayer’s statutory rights by sending US tax authorities banking data