10/21/2026 1:44:41 PM Supreme Court decides in ScottishPower that payments made instead of penalties are not deductible because they are not incurred for the purposes of the trade By Zoe Andrews The Supreme Court held in ScottishPower that there is no policy-based, judge-made rule that penalties and fines are not deductible. The...
6/7/2022 10:15:14 AM Net Zero: can tax help guide a unified approach? By Slaughter and May It is perhaps trite to say that tax can be used as the proverbial carrot and stick alike - or simply as a revenue raiser. It also goes...
4/16/2021 12:00:00 AM The long-awaited Euromoney decision has finally appeared. But is it right? By William Watson For much of last year, Euromoney was paired with Blackrock as a potentially ground-breaking case focusing on a statutory purpose test....
3/3/2021 12:00:00 AM Has the Chancellor really just announced a UK corporation tax rise of over 30%? By Mike Lane TLDR – yes, it seems he has. The Chancellor is still trumpeting the rate as the lowest in the G7, even after the rise. But for those...
3/3/2021 12:00:00 AM UK’s March 2021 Budget: Spend now – pay later By Tanja Velling The UK’s headline corporation tax rate is set to rise to 25% from April 2023 (with a commensurate increase in the diverted profits tax...
1/26/2021 10:54:18 AM Ireland's Corporation Tax Roadmap: Overview of January 2021 Update By Paul Fahy Bryan Hughes The Irish Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohue, recently published an update to Ireland's Corporation Tax Roadmap (Roadmap). The Roadmap...
10/14/2020 11:53:10 AM 2021 Irish Budget: key tax measures By Paul Fahy The Irish Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohue, and the Irish Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Michael McGrath, made their...
3/11/2020 12:00:00 AM Getting it done: the UK's March 2020 Budget By Tanja Velling Whilst the Budget was dominated by the announcement of a multi-billion pound economic stimulus to deal with the economic impact of...
10/11/2019 3:57:19 PM Dutch 2020 Budget: the end of an era By Maarten van der Weijden The Dutch government has released its budget plans for 2020, as well as certain tax proposals. The introduction of a withholding tax on...
9/26/2019 9:43:20 AM Who pays UK corporation tax? By Slaughter and May Earlier this week, HMRC published their annual corporation tax statistics, and they provide some interesting insights into who is paying...