AI chatbot’s fantasy tax cases cost taxpayer £13k
29th August 2025
Posted in Articles by Josh Barlow
A recent First-tier Tribunal has shone a light on the growing risks of taxpayers turning to artificial intelligence for self-help. In…
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Key defences against discovery assessments
11th July 2025
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
Generally, once the tax enquiry window has closed then a taxpayer is ‘safe’ from scrutiny from HMRC in respect of a…
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Foreign law matters when a non-UK resident company purchases its own shares
24th May 2024
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
In UK law a company can purchase its own shares from its shareholders. The question then arises about how this should…
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Is a single year of non-residence enough to escape UK tax?
6th November 2023
Posted in Articles by Andrew Marr
Years ago some taxpayers would seek to ‘wash’ out dividends from their companies by becoming non-UK tax resident for a single…
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Clarity on earlier bond encashments
25th February 2022
Posted in Articles by Laura Hutchinson
The issue “Everyone loves a top-slicing relief calculation”, said nobody ever. Calculations for tax payable on onshore and offshore bond encashments…
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HMRC loses transactions in securities case
28th January 2022
Posted in Articles, Capital Gains Tax by Andrew Marr
The issue Transactions in securities legislation (TISL) is what HMRC uses to combat capital transactions where they think that a shareholder…
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