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Taxpayers should question their legal advisers carefully about bringing future challenges to the accelerated payment notices regime if they are not to throw good money after bad. Patrick Cannon (15 Old Square) reviews the four reported judicial review challenges to APNs of note.
 
HMRC has outlined its current thinking on options to change the UK tax treatment of leased plant and machinery to ensure the tax rules in this area remain fit for purpose after the adoption of IFRS 16. Michael Everett and Peter Casey (KPMG) consider the background and the various proposals.
 

Waqar Shah (Mishcon de Reya) revisits the controversial decision in Zipvit where the customer lost its ability to claim input tax credit for the VAT which its supplier should have accounted to HMRC.

HMRC will continue with its plans to become a smaller, but more highly skilled department, with digital transformation at the heart of its strategy, writes HMRC’s chief executive, Dame Lin Homer DCB.
 

Julie Park (The VAT Consultancy) answers a query on how HMRC’s programme to improve large business tax compliance affects indirect taxes.

Taxpayers should think about the consequences before agreeing to HMRC’s latest initiative to further influence taxpayer behaviour, writes Michael Avient (UHY Hacker Young).

Paul Aplin (AC Mole & Sons) comments on the announcement that HMRC is to centre its operations into 13 regional hubs, with the closure of 137 of its offices. 

HMRC’s Large Business Director, Judith Knott, talks about the department’s approach to dealing with this sector.

Restitution interest on restitution interest? asks George Bull (RSM).

The Summer Finance Bill 2015 includes a new measure subjecting restitution interest to a charge to corporation tax at a rate of 45%. Paul Farmer and Jivaan Bennett (Joseph Hage Aaronson) explain the background and key elements of the proposed legislation.

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