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EMPLOYMENT TAXES


Mark Groom (Deloitte) summarises changes in employment taxes, looking at what’s to come and areas we’ll soon leave behind. 
 

Experts at Tolley examine highlights of the draft 2016 Finance Bill.

BDO, the liquidator in Murray Group Holdings (better known as ‘the Rangers case’), has submitted its appeal against the Court of Session’s ruling of 4 November 2015 on the company’s use of EBTs, seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. 

The Income Tax (Approved Expenses) Regulations, SI 2015/1948, define ‘qualifying travel’ and set out the approved method of paying or reimbursing standard meal allowances for the purposes of the new expenses exemption allowing employers to pay specified expenses to their employees from 6 April 20

EIS and preferential rights attaching to shares

The Advocate General for Scotland v Murray Group Holdings Ltd [2015] CSIH 77 (reported in Tax Journal, 13 November) has rightly generated a great deal of interest, but there does not seem to be a consensus on exactly what it decided and what the implications are.

Tax Journal's coverage of the Summer Finance Bill.

From 6 April 2015, employment agencies must return details of all workers they place with clients where no PAYE system is use for workers’ payments.

The first Conservative Budget for 19 years sees ‘Osborne unbound’, writes Chris Sanger (global head of tax policy, EY) in Tax Journal. This was ‘a reforming Budget’ which sets out plans for a lower tax future ‘but boosts the exchequer’s coffers greatly in the short term’.

There are lots of tribunal cases where HMRC has imposed a penalty for a failure to comply with the tax legislation and the taxpayer has claimed a reasonable excuse with varying degrees of success. The recent case of Optrak Distribution Software Ltd...
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