12/18/2024 10:36:25 AM Balancing growth and taxes: the UK government's corporate tax roadmap By Tanja Velling The announcement of a Spring Statement (rather than another Budget) on 26 March 2025 chimes with the promise of “predictability,...
12/11/2024 11:32:47 AM Purposive interpretation by the UK Supreme Court in Cobalt Data Centre By Kasim Mehmood In what appears to be a case confined to the application of the now expired capital allowances regime in respect of “enterprise zones”,...
12/10/2024 4:44:31 PM Impact of the US election: what does it mean for tax policy? By Tanja Velling Zoe Andrews In a special episode of Slaughter and May’s Tax News podcast, we asked Arvind Ravichandran, Tax Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP,...
12/5/2024 1:27:31 PM Partial enquiry notices – thumbs up or thumbs down? By Zoe Andrews “Mind the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves” is something my grandmother often said to me in days when pocket money was...
11/25/2024 10:13:16 AM How do you value an APA after the Court of Appeal's decision in Refinitiv? By Mike Lane Transfer pricing experts are used to grappling with some tricky valuation questions when it comes to intellectual property rights. After...
11/22/2024 10:45:40 AM Who has won the MAP awards? By Tanja Velling Dispute prevention and resolution is a key theme of the OECD’s annual “Tax Certainty Day”. The 2024 edition took place in Athens on 15...
11/7/2024 4:32:56 PM Borders of Smoke and Steel: The UK CBAM Consultation Response By Samay Shah Oliver Moir Aaron Wu Philippa Howell +1 more... Show less In a world where borders are often seen as barriers, greenhouse gases remain unconfined, drifting across seas and skies, untethered to...
10/31/2024 1:59:07 PM Autumn 2024 Budget: Support, prevention and deterrence to close the UK tax gap By Slaughter and May The Autumn 2024 budget sees the UK’s new Labour government act on a number its pre-election manifesto pledges (discussed here), and...
10/31/2024 11:28:01 AM The Autumn Budget 2024: Will the Budget deliver growth in UK energy and infrastructure? By Michael Corbett Hywel Davies Oliver Moir Alexander Dustan Gareth Miles Kathryn Emmett Adam Merlander +4 more... Show less On 30 October 2024, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered the first Budget under a Labour government since 2010, emphasising in her...
10/30/2024 6:10:40 PM The UK in 2024: an autumn Budget to “fix the foundations” By Tanja Velling Kasim Mehmood The UK’s Autumn 2024 Budget “delivers a large, sustained increase in spending, taxation, and borrowing” according to the Office for...
10/29/2024 1:37:43 PM Ireland introduces a participation exemption for foreign distributions By Fintan Clancy Orlaith Kane Ailish Finnerty David Kilty +1 more... Show less The long-awaited legislation for the introduction of a participation exemption for non-Irish dividends and distributions was included in...
10/14/2024 7:16:24 AM French Finance Bill for 2025: what would be new for businesses? By Sébastien de Monès Victor Camatta Following the general election of July 2024 and the formation of a new Government in September, it is now time for the French Parliament...
10/14/2024 7:15:16 AM French Finance Bill for 2025: what would be new for individuals? By Jean-Florent Mandelbaum Victor Camatta Following the general election of July 2024 and the formation of a new Government in September, it is now time for the French Parliament...
10/10/2024 3:21:43 PM HMRC’s “known position” on transfer pricing compliance By Zoe Andrews HMRC’s Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Compliance (GfC7) are promoted as “best practice approaches to transfer pricing to lower risk and...
8/28/2024 11:00:39 AM How does the purpose of your borrowing impact tax deductibility? By Tanja Velling It will come as no surprise that the UK imposes certain restrictions on companies’ ability to deduct interest when calculating the...
7/22/2024 12:14:09 PM Mind the gap: What could Labour’s plans to close the UK tax gap mean for your business? By Tanja Velling The Labour party has formed its first UK government since 2010. Its manifesto (discussed here) and ‘Close the Tax Gap’ document published...