Wills & Trusts Law Reports | June 2015 #150This was the conjoined appeal of two taxpayers against penalty determinations issued against them by HMRC. The taxpayers, who were both business people who held directorships in a number of UK companies, had realised capital gains on the disposal of an entity known as Efforsenrab Ltd and land and buildings in Essex in the UK. They participated in a capital redemption policy scheme and claimed a capital loss arising from that scheme to be set against the capital gains which they had realised. They both signed a professional services agreement with a tax adviser under which it agreed to pr...
Tim Adams and Nicole Booth explain recent tax cases and the consequences for the taxpayer ‘Given the current climate and HMRC’s determination to clamp down on marketed tax avoidance schemes, taxpayers looking to use a tax avoidance scheme will need to exercise extreme caution.’ The decision in Litman & Newall v HMRC [2013] represents another …
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