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LEGITIMATE-EXPECTATION


Stuart Walsh and Nuel Oji (DLA Piper) examine lessons from a recent High Court judgment.
Gary Barnett and Craig Kirkham-Wilson (Simmons & Simmons) provide your monthly guide to the latest VAT developments that matter.
Catherine Robins and Sam Wardleworth (Pinsent Masons) review an interesting Upper Tribunal decision on the test for trading, 'golden contracts' and the availability  of enterprise zone allowances and legitimate expectation.
The Court of Appeal's recent decision appears to set a high bar for establishing an unlawful breach of a taxpayer’s legitimate expectation, write Robert Waterson and Constantine Christofi (RPC).
Normative underpinnings and the public interest in tax collection

The end to the Mansworth v Jelley affair.

The OTS’s recommendations on HMRC guidance provides some hope that in the future reliance on guidance will be less risky, writes Stephen Daly (King’s College London).

Taxpayers need to know where they stand, writes Andrew Hubbard (RSM).

The courts are reluctant to tie HMRC down to its assurances unless made in the clearest and most unambiguous circumstances, as a recent case illustrates. 

Mark Whitehouse and Peter Halford (PwC Legal) consider Whipple J’s judgment in R (oao Hely-Hutchinson) v HMRC. This important decision is likely to significantly curtail HMRC’s power to depart from published guidance. 
 
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