Aug 18, 2022 Farewell Police Registration Certificates By Macfarlanes It has been an unusual feature of the UK immigration process that certain nationals (e.g. of Brazil, China, Israel, Russia, Turkey, UAE)...
May 04, 2022 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...
Aug 26, 2021 Remote right to work checks to continue until 5 April 2022 By Edward Reed The UK Government has announced that the temporary concession on remote right to work checks will now continue until at least 5 April...
Aug 26, 2021 Brexit plus Covid-19 plus immigration policy equals acute labour shortages By Edward Reed Back in December 2020, just before the end of the Brexit transition period which marked the final withdrawal of the UK from the EU's...
Jul 08, 2021 Britannia’s tax collectors rule the waves? By Damiano Sogaro Charishma Bhujohory Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) maintained that no additional UK value added tax (VAT) would be payable by owners of pleasure...
Jun 11, 2021 The Government rejects publishing a long-term tax strategy By Paul Hardwick Back in March I wrote about the Treasury Committee’s report entitled Tax after Coronavirus which considered, amongst other things, a...
May 24, 2021 Further changes on the horizon – the VAT e-commerce package By Charishma Bhujohory As the dust settles on Brexit, businesses will need to brace themselves for another wave of change on the VAT front – the implementation...
May 17, 2021 The OECD sets its sights on inherited wealth By Michael Shaw There has been public debate over using wealth taxes as a way to fund the massive government spending during the Covid-19 pandemic. But...
Apr 07, 2021 Covid-19 related amendments to the EU securitisation regulation and ESAs opinion on its jurisdictional scope By Ryan Moore Edward Karsten Richard Fletcher Jamie Macpherson +1 more... Show less Covid-19 related amendments to the EU Securitisation Regulation The European Parliament and the Council of the European adopted...
Mar 02, 2021 A wealth tax? Or a "one-off" wealth tax, after coronavirus? By Paul Hardwick Yesterday the Treasury Committee published a report entitled Tax after coronavirus. Select committee reports are not always accurate...
Jan 18, 2021 UK introduces tighter travel restrictions to combat new Covid-19 variants By Edward Reed UPDATE: From 15 February 2021, new guidance is in effect - please see our updated note here: Covid-19 UK travel restrictions and...
Jan 15, 2021 Supreme Court judgment concludes FCA business interruption test case - FCA reports that more policyholders will have valid claims By Alexander Cibulskis Today the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in the FCA's Business Interruption (BI) test case. The judgment substantially upholds...
Dec 03, 2020 What do the new tiers now mean for office working? By Matthew Ramsey Sean Lavin As readers will know, on Tuesday this week Parliament approved Regulations establishing a new three-tier framework to replace the second...
Nov 26, 2020 Second suspension of wrongful trading By Timothy Bromley-White The government has once again suspended wrongful trading, this time until 30 April 2021. The government had previously suspended wrongful...
Nov 25, 2020 What the spending review means for the future of UK tax By David Gauke As expected, today’s statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer setting out his spending plans for the next year did not specifically...
Nov 24, 2020 A little less conversation, a little more action By Lucy Urwin Rhian Edwards Once again, Covid-19 has demonstrated its ability to affect issues seemingly entirely removed from the auspices of a health crisis. In...