In Swiss Centre Ltd v HMRC [UKFTT 449 TC 2023], SCL had claimed a payment of approximately £33.5m, paid to an Irish government agency (NAMA), was deductible under the loan relationship rules.  Under an alternative argument, SCL claimed that approximately £24m of the total disputed amount was deductible in computing the chargeable gain on the sale of a property.

The Swiss Centre was sold in 2011 and at the time all involved believed that the beneficial ownership of the Swiss Centre had previously been transferred by SCL to a trust [Capital Trust] such that the Capital Trust sold the property.   SCL and HMRC agreed in 2017 that the purported transfer by SCL of the beneficial interest in the Swiss Centre by SCL to the Capital Trust should be regarded as having been of no effect. As a result, SCL agreed that it was liable for corporation tax in respect of the gain which it realised on the disposal.  However, the parties did not agree the quantum of SCL’s corporation tax liabilities.

In March 2018, HMRC issued a discovery assessment to SCL for corporation tax of approximately £29.5m on the gain which it realised on the disposal of the Swiss Centre. The assessment was calculated on the basis that the disputed payment was not deductible in calculating the gain or available to be set against it for corporation tax purposes under the loan relationship rules.  SCL appealed against the assessment and requested a review. On review by HMRC, the assessment was upheld. SCL notified its appeal against the assessment to the FTT.

SCL’s grounds of the appeal were that SCL was required to enter into a deed with NAMA obliging it to arrange the purchase of certain properties over which NAMA had security for a consideration which was £24m in excess of their market value. That amount should be deductible for SCL in calculating its profits for corporation tax purposes on the basis that:

(a)          the payment was deductible under the loan relationships rules as a result of arising from a related transaction to a loan relationship, being financing provided for the development of the Swiss Centre, as a result of being incurred to secure the release of NAMA’s security over the Swiss Centre;

(b)         the payment was an expense incurred under or for the purpose of a loan relationship or related transaction.  It was treated as incurred directly as a result of any of related transactions” within what was s.307(4)(c) CTA 2009; or

(c)          the obligation to acquire the properties at an overvalue was a cost of enhancing the value of the Swiss Centre as it was a payment made to a third party for it to release its security thereby enabling the sale of the Swiss Centre.  Reliance was placed in particular on the decision in HMRC v Blackwell [2017] All ER 188 on the basis that the cost will be deductible in the calculation of chargeable gains where it is reflected in the nature or state of the asset.

According to SCL, the remaining amount of the disputed sum of €11m was paid in relation to a guarantee given by SCL in respect of the indebtedness of a related company Lavangna Ltd. On making the payment SCL acquired NAMA’s rights to a loan made to Lavangna Ltd.  The payment was therefore a related transaction.  As the value of the rights acquired on the payment was nil, SCL was entitled to a debit for the resulting loss.

SCL said it should be recognised that the amounts were paid in the very particular context of the financial crisis and its aftermath.  However, the burden of proof was with SCL to show that it was entitled to a deduction for the payment of the disputed sum.

The core of HMRC’s case was that the disputed sum was paid because it was in the interests of the wider group of companies of which SCL was a member and in the interests of the two principal individual shareholders/directors.

The case involved considerable factual complexity over which company or companies in fact made payments and in what capacity they were made.

On analysis of the payments by the FTT from the evidence provided and, as described in the 242 paragraphs and over 45 pages of its decision, it held that the Lavangna payment was not deductible as a debit paid under the loan relationship rules.  Similarly, the payment to NAMA was not deductible under the loan relationships rules nor paid wholly and exclusively for enhancing the value of the Swiss Centre.

The UT has now agreed with the FTT and disallowed SCL’s appeal [see SCL v HMRC 2026 UKUT 00227]. Payments made in satisfaction of certain related party debts, as guarantor, were not debt costs of the taxpayer within the loan relationships regime.

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The consultation presents a range of potential approaches and invites views from stakeholders on their relative merits, risks, and practical impacts.

Within the current rules, companies and certain other persons paying interest have an obligation to deduct from those payments an amount representing income tax at the basic rate. Broadly, ‘yearly interest’ (generally interest arising on a debt capable of lasting a year or more) is within the rules, whereas ‘short interest’ (on loans of less than a year) is not. The rules most commonly apply in two scenarios:

• when a UK company (or local authority or partnership including a company) pays interest to an individual or other non-corporate lender
• when interest is paid to any person whose usual place of abode is outside the UK

It is the second category, interest payments from UK payers to overseas payees, which are the subject of this consultation

The UK’s wide network of Double Taxation Agreements can often reduce or remove the UK’s taxing rights over payments of interest to residents of the treaty partner. However, treaty relief from interest withholding is not automatic.

The overseas recipient (or in some circumstances the UK payer) must apply for and obtain a direction from HMRC before the interest can be paid with a reduced or zero rate of withholding. Until HMRC grants this direction, the UK payer remains obligated to deduct at the basic rate of income tax and return the sums deducted to HMRC. The payee may then submit a claim for a refund of tax from HMRC if they are entitled to relief under the relevant treaty. While this eventually provides relief, it generally results in a cash-flow disadvantage, relies on a valid claim being made, and increases administration for both the lender and HMRC.

To ensure that treaty benefits are only conferred in appropriate circumstances, and that HMRC has an appropriate level of visibility over cross-border income flows, the processes to claim treaty relief on a payment of interest involve several steps by both parties to the payment.

Relief is generally claimed using the DT-Company or DT-Individual forms which require details of the payment, the payee, and the underlying DTA.

Once received, HMRC may issue a direction permitting future payments be made at the treaty rate or gross for a period of five years, subject to certain events.

These processes may be expedited by the operation of the Double Taxation Treaty Passport scheme, under which overseas corporate lenders can apply for a ‘treaty passport’. Once granted, the process to permit the UK payer to withhold at the treaty rate is streamlined, although HMRC direction is given on a loan-by-loan basis.

HMRC has also operated concessionary treatment by which tax which otherwise would be assessed on the UK payer following a failure to operate the withholding process is not pursued to the extent that it is clear that any tax collected would be repaid to the lender under the terms of a DTA. Operation of this concession is currently paused whilst the underlying policy and conditions are reviewed.

The operation of the concession, and its subsequent pause, are not within the scope of this consultation, and the consultation does not seek views on whether that concession should be reinstated or modified. However, the experience of the concession, and the issues arising following its pause, provide relevant context in illustrating some of the underlying administrative challenges and risks within the current system, particularly where relief is available in principle but difficult to obtain in practice. This context has informed the government’s consideration of whether there is scope to simplify the design and administration of treaty relief on payments of interest.

In summary, the current system in relation to treaty relief involves a requirement to withhold tax unless advance clearance is obtained. However, not all interest payments are subject to withholding. Various categories of interest are exempt under domestic law, such as interest paid by banks and building societies in the normal course of business. Such exclusions are not the focus of the consultation.

Stakeholders have raised concerns that the current process can result in delays, administrative complexity, uncertainty and unnecessary cash-flow impacts. In many cases, initial withholding is required even where relief is ultimately available, resulting in complexity and administrative repayment processes with limited Exchequer benefit.

HMRC is seeking responses to 15 questions in the consultation which runs from 13 July to 7 September 2026.

If you would like more detail on the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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This measure will simplify and fully digitise the administration and payment of tax on transactions in securities and ensure that all transactions are taxed under a comprehensive digital system. It will remove the need for non-electronic instruments and paper-based reporting and payment processes.

The government will also clarify the treatment of a small residual population of pre-2003 land transactions currently within the stamp duty regime, as part of the wider modernisation programme.

In November 2018, an initial consultation on changes to the stamp taxes on shares [STS] consideration rules was launched. It concluded that it was necessary to consider the STS framework as a whole. A Call for Evidence was published in July 2020 and this explored design principles and options for the modernisation of STS, with the response published in July 2021.

HMRC subsequently established an industry working group in November 2021 to consider the shape of possible modernisation reforms. From those discussions, a formal consultation was undertaken in 2023 with the proposed replacement of SD and SDRT with a single STT. The government confirmed its intention to proceed with a STS in April 2025 and also launched a consultation on the rules for the higher 1.5% rate of tax. A summary of the responses to that consultation has now been published.

The government is now aiming to introduce the single tax, legislative framework and the portal in 2027. An update on the commencement date will be provided this autumn.

Transitional arrangements will apply to transfers of securities entered into before the commencement date to which SD or SDRT applies but is not due to be reported or paid until on or after that date.

These transitional arrangements for SD and SDRT through savings provisions will apply for a period of four years from the commencement of the STT.

The consultation on the draft legislation will close of 7 September 2026, and legislation will be introduced in Finance Bill 2026-27 to enable commencement of the STT in 2027.

If you would like more detail on any of the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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For most of the measures announced, HMRC have issued a tax information and impact note setting out what the policy seeks to achieve, with a summary of the expected impacts, draft legislation, and an explanatory note which provides a more detailed guide to the legislation.

Measures announced cover, in particular, the following:

• EMI schemes and simplification of the process to grant options
• ISAs and compliance package
• Introduction of the side-by-side package and amendments to multinational and domestic top up taxes
• Reform of the foreign PE exemption
• Securities transfer tax and modernisation of stamp taxes on shares
• Cryptoasset loans and liquidity pools
• Tax treatment of stablecoins
• Changes to reporting BIKs from April 2027
• Modernising the correction of errors

In addition, consultation documents have been issued on the following:

• Aligning the time limits for recovery of NICs with income tax
• Reforming land remediation relief
• Simplifying treaty relief from withholding tax on interest paid overseas
• Introduction of electric VED
• Cryptoasset taxation and stablecoins
• Modernising stamp taxes on shares and the 1.5% charge
• Reforming the customs treatment of low value imports into the UK
• Tax treatment of predevelopment costs

The technical consultation period will close on 7 September 2026.

If you would like more detail on any of the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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The aim is to smooth out tax payment and help taxpayers avoid unexpected or large tax bills. Late payments are in some cases linked to the current timing and structure of payment arrangements (with delays of up to 22 months from when they receive income to when the relevant tax is paid), which can be difficult for some taxpayers to budget and pay on time. This means there is a greater risk of individuals falling into tax debt.

Under the current system, approximately 1.1 million payments on account were missed in January 2025 with the taxpayer falling into tax debt in 75% of cases. Tax debt can be costly for individuals, as it can lead to penalties and interest. If a final self assessment tax bill is paid late, there is a penalty of 5% of the tax unpaid at 30 days, six months and twelve months, plus interest on the amount owed. By paying more frequently in smaller, easy to manage payments, the risk of additional costs associated with debt for individuals should decrease.

By comparison with current self assessment arrangements in the UK, many other countries including the US, Canada, France, Germany and Australia collect tax much sooner.

Currently, the amount of tax that can be collected through PAYE in any pay period is capped at 50% of PAYE income. This cap is intended to help protect individuals’ net income. The government is testing through the consultation whether there are specific groups for whom a different threshold might be appropriate. For example, some taxpayers may prefer to have this threshold raised to enable them to have their projected ITSA liabilities collected automatically through PAYE.

HMRC estimate that there are 9.1 million individuals who file a self assessment tax return and do not meet the criteria to have some of their ITSA liabilities collected through PAYE. Of these, around 2.5 million taxpayers make POAs. The remainder make a single payment in January following the relevant tax year, or have no ITSA tax liability to pay. Some taxpayers in ITSA may be due a repayment.

Taxpayers with ITSA liabilities over £1,000, who have not paid 80% of their liability at source, such as through PAYE, are required to make two equal POAs due by the end of January and July. POAs are calculated using known ITSA liability, typically based on the taxpayer’s ITSA tax return from the previous year. Any remaining balance is settled through a balancing payment which is due by 31 January following the end of the tax year, at the same time as filing.

The government wishes to increase the frequency of POAs from April 2029, with POAs paid in the same year as the taxable activity through direct ITSA POA. This could be achieved through, for example, monthly or quarterly payments, aligning timing more closely with ITSA payments through PAYE.

The government recognises that ITSA income can be irregular. It is therefore seeking options to balance the potential for more regular payments with avoiding taxpayers having to make payments that do not reflect their income patterns. Direct ITSA POAs could be forecasted, based on past self assessment returns, with taxpayers able to update their forecasts efficiently. Taxpayers would report their actual liability and reconcile their payments with a balancing payment or repayment from HMRC when they complete their self assessment return, as they do now.

The consultation sets out the government’s key areas of focus for changing the timing of ITSA payments, including:

• the proposed design of reforms for ITSA taxpayers with PAYE income who will be required to pay their forecasted ITSA liability in-year from April 2029
• the potential for more timely payment for other ITSA taxpayers, such as those with ITSA income only
• specifics on design, how and when to collect payments, and safeguards needed to protect taxpayers
• support and guidance required for taxpayers and their representatives to help them transition to new payment timing

From April 2029, the government will require ITSA taxpayers with sufficient PAYE income to make ITSA payments through PAYE each payday, divided into equal payments through the year. The forecasted liability payments will be based on the taxpayer’s last filed ITSA return, as this will be a crystallised or complete picture of liability. Taxpayers will be able to update their forecast using more recent information to ensure it remains an accurate reflection of their expected tax bill.

The consultation runs for six weeks from 23 June to 4 August 2026 and a summary of responses will be published in Autumn 2026.

If you would like more detail on the consultation, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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In the Budget 2025, the government announced its decision to implement the ICTS, and Finance Act 2026 gave the Commissioners of HMRC the power to introduce regulations requiring in-scope multinationals to file an ICTS. The government intends that the ICTS reporting requirement will take effect for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027.

The ICTS will facilitate automated, data-led risk assessment by HMRC, permitting more accurate identification of transfer pricing risk. It will increase efficiency by promoting tax compliance at the earliest opportunity and reducing the length of transfer pricing enquiries. Taxpayers will benefit from shorter, better targeted enquiries from HMRC that are focused on cases where adjustments to transfer pricing are required.

The measure is intended to improve fairness ensuring multinational enterprises pay tax on profits generated from economic activity in the UK. It is also intended to increase efficiency so that HMRC’s compliance activity can be more effectively targeted, benefiting compliant taxpayers.

The government is seeking views on draft regulations, a draft HMRC notice and a draft template illustrating the information that would need to be filed annually.

HMRC advises that the use of Excel to depict the ICTS template is entirely illustrative, for convenience, and not indicative of IT design, as HMRC will work collaboratively with software providers, other intermediaries and end users on the IT design of the ICTS. HMRC intends for the final design to minimise burdens and reflects user needs, consistent with their strategic approach to third-party software.

The consultation will run from 16 June 2026 to 31 July 2026 and responses received will feed into the drafting of the statutory instrument which the government expects to lay later in 2026. Consultation responses will also inform the notice which HMRC intends to publish by the end of 2026.

If you would like more information on the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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The tax rules applying to transactions between companies and their shareholders, including those establishing the nature, timing, and quantum of distributions, have remained largely unchanged since the introduction of corporation tax in 1965.

The rules are extremely broad and are intended to capture any extractions of value from a company to a shareholder in respect of their shareholding, or in respect of debt instruments with equity-like characteristics. The rules are subject to particular exemptions such as when the extraction is in return for new consideration or repayment of capital.

While the rules generally operate well, the commercial and legal environment in which they apply has undergone significant change. There are some scenarios where they can produce distortions and result in substantively similar payments receiving different tax treatment. In particular, the charge to income tax on dividends from non-UK resident companies developed separately as a charge on income from foreign possessions and is not aligned with the wider charge to income tax on dividends and other distributions from UK resident companies.

Extractions which do not fall within the charge to income tax often result in capital distributions treatment and are subject to CGT instead. This can affect both the amount that is taxable and the tax rate at which it is charged. The result is that economically similar payments to a shareholder can be taxed inconsistently.

The government is now considering how the rules could be modernised to ensure they operate as intended and do not give rise to distortions, without undermining commercial practice. This is intended to produce a cohesive system that taxes equivalent payments in more consistent way.

The proposals are not intended to impact legitimate commercial restructurings, and the government is keen to understand the wider impacts of these proposals on corporate groups, their owners and how they choose to operate.

Many definitional provisions under consideration will apply equally to taxpayers within the charge to corporation tax as to ones within the charge to income tax. The focus of the consultation is on individual shareholders. The proposals are not intended to affect corporate shareholders directly. The general exemption from tax under Part 9A CTA 2009 should ensure this, but the government welcomes responses highlighting unintended consequences.

The consultation covers the following seven areas:

• Capital reductions
• Demerger relief rules
• Income tax treatment of distributions from non-UK resident companies and aligning this with the treatment of dividends and other distributions from UK resident companies
• Interaction of the distributions regime with the treatment of debt and loans and proposes introducing a priority rule as to when extractions should be charged under the loans to participators regime
• Loans from non UK resident companies that otherwise would meet the close company criteria and considers introducing rules to address long term extractions
• Purchase of own share rules
• Transactions in securities provisions

The consultation runs for 12 weeks from 23 June to 14 September 2026. The government will analyse the consultation process and publish a summary of responses after the consultation closes. It may seek to engage in further consultation on specific reforms.

If you would like more detail on any of the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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It has been HMRC’s general practice to tax a UK resident member of an LLC on the profits of the LLC only if and when those profits are distributed by the LLC to its members. In particular, it has treated a Delaware LLC as having ‘ordinary share capital’ for the purposes of s.832 TA88.  Any tax paid in the US on the profits of the LLC is available for relief against UK tax only as underlying tax and only to a UK company which controls, directly or indirectly, at least 10% of the voting power in the LLC.  However, double taxation can arise for UK resident individual members of an LLC if treated as transparent in the US but opaque in the UK.

HMRC’s practice remains at variance to the 2015 Supreme Court decision in the Anson case [UKSC44] which found that the US LLC should be treated as transparent for UK tax purposes and that profits were taxable on the UK members as they arose rather than when they were distributed, and the taxpayers appeal was allowed.

HMRC maintained that the decision was specific to the facts found in that case. Where US LLCs have been treated as companies within a group structure, HMRC would continue to treat US LLCs as companies.  Where a US LLC has been treated as carrying on a trade or business, i.e. transparent for tax purposes, HMRC would continue to treat the US LLC as carrying on a trade or business.

Given the different views on the opacity of LLCs, individual members of an LLC who are tax resident in the UK can face a high effective tax rate, potentially as high as 75%. They will be chargeable directly on profits, income and gains as these arise in the US, and taxable again in the UK on any distributions of the LLC’s pre-tax profits. These tax charges arise because the provisions of the UK/USA DTA on double taxation relief.

The government now appear to recognise the issue of high effective tax rates for UK resident individual members of reverse hybrids and wishes to find a solution which is “effective and robust in providing a fair outcome with long-term certainty”.

The government says it is mindful of the need to avoid unnecessary disruption to the established tax position for corporate members of hybrids. The consultation does not represent an intention to change the position for corporates.

The consultation asks a range of questions on solutions proposed, whether there are problems with the proposed solutions, what are the implications for different types of investors, with details of technical implementation such as timeframes and practical scope.

The consultation asks for views on proposals for changes to legislation by 31 July 2026.

If you would like more detail on this consultation, please contact Keith Rushen on +44 (0)20 7486 2378.

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The capital gains share reorganisation rules in s.127 – 139 TCGA92 generally apply where a company’s share capital is reorganised and are extended to where shares are issued to a person in exchange for shares in another company or its share capital is reconstructed. These are usually ‘paper for paper’ transactions where no cash has been paid. In such transactions the reorganisation rules provide that there is no immediate charge to CGT or corporation tax on the shareholders. Instead, any gain is rolled over into the new shares.

The FA 2026 changes amend the existing avoidance rules by removing the bona fide commercial reasons condition and ensure that they apply to those persons who have entered into arrangements where the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the arrangement is to secure a tax advantage that they would not ordinarily have been entitled to.

HMRC has previously confirmed that deferral of a charge to tax is not, of itself, tax avoidance, as the purpose of s.135 is to provide deferral and the anti-avoidance rule has to be viewed in that light. HMRC will have regard to the established case law on anti-avoidance rules such as the case when considering whether counteraction is warranted.

The previous wording of the anti-avoidance rule meant that it did not apply where a share exchange was effected for bona fide commercial reasons and did not form part of a scheme or arrangements of which the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, was avoidance of liability to CGT or CT.

The revised rule now applies where there are arrangements that relate to an exchange of securities, and the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the arrangements is to reduce or avoid a capital gains liability.  Only the shareholders obtaining a tax advantage will be affected and holders of 5% or less of any class of securities in the original company are no longer outside the scope of the rule.

The reason for the change is that in the Delinian [formerly Euromoney] case, the Court of Appeal confirmed that the previous wording focussed on the purposes of the exchange itself, finding that the exchange was not part of a scheme or arrangement to avoid tax and that even where tax avoidance arrangements are present, they may not be sufficient to amount to a main purpose.  HMRC suggest the revised wording puts the focus of the purpose test on the particular arrangements that are put in place to avoid tax.  It also follows the approach of most modern TAARs which also dispense with a bona fide commercial reasons condition.

The changes to the rule are intended to deter and, where necessary, counteract, situations where additional arrangements such as the use of loan notes in certain situations have been included in a commercial transaction in order to reduce or avoid a liability to tax on chargeable gains.

HMRC does not consider that the rule would apply where a business is restructured so that a share sale will qualify for a relief or exemption should a sale take place after the relevant qualifying conditions for that relief have been met throughout the relevant period following the restructuring.  This would include for example separating investment and trading activities with a view to any future sale of shares in a trading company qualifying for the substantial shareholding exemption or separating commercial properties before transfer to a REIT.

This contrasts with situations where a proposed commercial transaction would not meet the conditions for such a relief at the time of the transaction, where a type of security is included in the exchange or scheme of reconstruction with the purpose of reducing or avoiding a liability to tax on capital gains.

Given the changes to the anti avoidance provisions, where there is uncertainty whether additional steps included in a share exchange or reorganisation are arrangements with a main purpose of avoiding or reducing CGT, it may be appropriate to seek advance clearance from HMRC.

If you would like more details on the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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Advance assurance is a voluntary service that allows the claimant company to send to HMRC details of its R&D activities. This is done before claiming R&D tax relief in its corporation tax return.

HMRC offers two types of advance assurance, being a new targeted advance assurance service – the advance assurance pilot, and an existing full claim advance assurance service

Before an application for advance assurance is made, the applicant must choose the right type of assurance service and meet the relevant criteria to use it. A company cannot apply under both services for the same period or project.

The targeted advance assurance service has been introduced as a pilot. The pilot will run until May 2027 and gives eligible small or medium sized enterprises clarity on specific complex or high-risk areas of an R&D tax relief claim, before a claim is made.

Applicants will be able to seek assurance on one of four issues during the pilot, which have been chosen from stakeholder feedback as the most complex or high-risk aspects of an R&D, being

• whether the project meets the definition of R&D for tax purposes
• whether overseas expenditure qualifies for relief
• which party can claim relief for contracted-out expenditure
• whether the company qualifies for exemption from the PAYE or National Insurance contribution cap

Up to two applications for targeted advance assurance may be made. Each application can only cover one project and one assurance area of R&D relief. Assurance on another project or area will require a separate application.

HMRC will continue to provide a full claim advance assurance service to SMEs claiming R&D relief for the first time. This service covers the entire claim, and the advance assurance granted will cover the first three accounting periods only.

If you would like more detail on the above, please contact Keith Rushen on 0207 486 2378.

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