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EU puts a lid on interest deductibility with offer of new equity tax allowance
By Rhiannon Kinghall Were
The European Commission (EC) has proposed a new tax incentive to encourage funding new investment by increasing capital. The objective of...
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Deep sea carriage class claim rolls on
By Simon Day, Alex Evans
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (the Tribunal) has allowed “opt-out” collective proceedings to proceed in a claim for damages against...
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Lloyd v Google: implications for funding mass data breach claims
By Simon Day, Fred Snowball, Alex Evans
In the third of our series on the Supreme Court’s decision in Lloyd v Google, we place the judgment in context and consider its...
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Pillar One: assessing the asset management carve-out
By Bezhan Salehy
On 6 May the OECD published its proposals for the exclusion of regulated financial services activities from Pillar One of the BEPS 2.0...
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HMRC transfer pricing tax haul jumps almost 50% in 2020/21
By Nick Foster-Taylor
Statistics released by HMRC show that transfer pricing revenues have increased from £1.45bn in the 12 months to 31 March 2020 to £2.16bn...
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The Chancellor announces a £25 million “fraud squad” to recover £5 billion
By Lorna Emson, Max Hobbs, Georgia O'Connor
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced a new “fraud squad” to recover money stolen from the state-backed Covid Bounce Back Loan...
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Disclose and explain – or else give up the put up or shut up
By Elizabeth Doherty, Edward Parry-Smith, Riley Forson
In a judgment recently handed down in the High Court case of Parsons & Anor v Reid & Anor [2022] EWHC 755 (Ch), Master Clark considered...
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Government consults on post-Brexit prudential regime for insurers
By Alexander Cibulskis
Today the government has released a new consultation paper on its proposal for significant reforms to Solvency II – the prudential...
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FCA implements new requirements for board and executive diversity reporting
By Dominic Sedghi, Dan Lavender, Helen Harvey
Macfarlanes' Corporate Law Update reported on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s recently-published policy statement on diversity...
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£2.7 million fine for breach of UK arms controls: but why the lack of transparency?
By Helen Harvey, Neill Blundell, Georgia O'Connor
It has just been announced that in February of this year, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) fined an unidentified UK company circa £2.7 million...
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Challenges and opportunities for ESG-linked pay in 2022
By Lucy Urwin
Last week Ras Berglund and I spoke at the ESOP Centre’s 2022 Share Schemes Symposium about the growing impact of ESG on executive...
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Might US companies find comfort in separate CEO and chairs?
By Dominic Sedghi, Richard Burrows, Francesca Bird
JPMorgan last week announced its plans to split the roles of CEO and chair when Jamie Dimon steps down. Dimon has held the position of...
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Non-fungible tokens: a new means of monetisation
By Sonja Dragomir
Non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) have become a topic of significant interest for intellectual property owners, content creators, investors,...
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Jersey reflects on BEPS 2.0
By Bezhan Salehy
Yesterday the Government of Jersey published a “reflective paper” that sets out its current approach to the OECD BEPS 2.0 reforms, and...
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Ed Sheeran wins copyright battle
By Martha Campbell
The High Court has ruled that Ed Sheeran’s hit song "Shape of You" did not infringe Sami Chokri’s 2015 song "Oh Why".Sami Chokri (who...
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UK to amend tax rules in aim to become a “global cryptoassets hub”
By Rebecca Rose, Gregory Price
In a speech at Innovate Finance Global Summit on Monday 4 April, John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, set out the UK...
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