Tax

Conveyancing lawyers are scrambling to deal with a stamp duty hike, while lawyers’ representative bodies welcomed extra funds but highlighted the need for more investment in justice, following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has abolished non-doms and raised national insurance for medium and large employers in a dramatic budget that aims to raise an extra £40bn in taxes

Harry Sheehan on why the Supreme Court’s guidance on the common law test for employment status was much needed

The Supreme Court’s recent football referee decision on the common law test for employment status has ‘wide ramifications’ for employment law, Harry Sheehan, Devereux Chambers, writes in this week’s NLJ

Apple must pay Ireland about €13bn plus interest after the European Court of Justice ruled a controversial tax arrangement favouring the tech giant between 2003 and 2014 breached EU state aid rules

Nicholas Dobson relates an unusual attempt to avoid council tax liability

Two-thirds of UK tax professionals either use generative artificial intelligence (AI) on a regular basis or intend to do so soon, a Tolley report has found

The Spring Budget brought several tweaks to property taxation & CGT, which are likely to impact the wider real estate market, write Chris Gaunt & Caroline Styan

The Chancellor gave an extra £170m to the justice system, with £12m earmarked for early legal advice in private family law issues, in his spring budget—as well as axing non-dom status, cutting national insurance contributions (NICs), trimming property capital gains tax from 28% to 24% and extending the windfall tax on North Sea oil profits

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