Clipperton & anr v HMRC WTLR(w) 2021-08

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Tax Planning: The gain plan

A recent case highlights the importance of meticulous implementation when tax planning. Emma Pearce explains ‘WT Ramsay v IRC [1981] was the leading authority on the approach to statutory interpretation adopted by courts to counter tax avoidance schemes.’ This article discusses the First-tier Tribunal’s (FTT) decision in Trustees of the Morrison 2002 Maintenance Trust v …
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Trustees: A red card?

Catharine Bell and Nicole Aubin-Parvu review a case that highlights the importance for trustees of impartiality and independence when handling EBTs ‘There was, in fact, evidence to suggest that the trust was intended to be operated in breach of trust and that the scheme required such breach to achieve its purpose.’ The decision of the …
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Mclaughlin v HMRCC [2012] UKFTT 174 (TC)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | June 2012 #120

James Albert McLaughlin (taxpayer), who was UK resident, engaged in a marketed planning scheme to avoid tax on a capital gain that he had made on the sale of a business. The scheme involved the acquisition by exchange of shares for overseas registered loan notes issued by two subsidiaries of Skandia UK Ltd (loan notes). The taxpayer then transferred the loan notes to SG Hambros Trust Company Ltd (trustee) to hold on the trusts of a settlor-interested settlement that he had established on 5 February 2003. By a deed of addition made a month later, the trustee added Adrian Gower, who was do...