8/11/2025 10:26:07 AM When Tax Meets Automation: Lessons From HMRC's Use (Or Not) Of Artificial Intelligence By Edward Machin Benjamin Wonnacott As businesses and individuals in the UK continue to explore the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence, it should come as no...
7/29/2025 9:57:06 AM French Tax Administration Issues Draft Comments on Management Package Tax Reform By Emmanuel Mimin Raphaël Durand On July 23, 2025, the French Tax Administration released its initial draft guidance in the BOFiP (Bulletin Officiel des Finances...
5/1/2025 3:41:38 PM Duty-Free: The New UK Single Tax on Securities By Benjamin Wonnacott The replacement of the UK’s paper-based stamp duty (SD), and its electronic cousin stamp duty reserve tax (SDRT), with a unified and...
4/30/2025 5:06:36 PM Impact of Permanent Establishment Reform for Credit Funds By Andrew Howard On 28 April, the UK Government produced draft legislation for consultation as the latest step in the reform of UK rules on transfer...
3/26/2025 9:20:37 AM What’s Ahead for Solar and Wind in 2025: Insights from Infocast Summit By Rachel Phillips Thomas Fraser Samuel Tansley What role will solar, wind and storage technologies play in addressing the pending “energy emergency” in the United States, and how is...
2/18/2025 9:06:06 AM Substance, Tax Treaties and the UK Supreme Court in Royal Bank of Canada By Benjamin Wonnacott Last week’s Supreme Court judgment in Royal Bank of Canada v. HMRC [2025] UKSC 2 casts a spotlight on – among a wide range of other...
1/13/2025 10:14:06 AM ESG in 2025 for Legal and Compliance Professionals: A Closer Look at Project 2025 By Michael Littenberg With Trump 2.0 beginning next week, it is time to take another, closer look at Project 2025. The 2025 Presidential Transition Project –...
11/25/2024 12:19:36 PM UK pension megafunds: the tax perspective By Benjamin Wonnacott As the Government embarks on ambitious reforms to the UK pension fund investment sector, with major implications for the private capital...
1/4/2024 10:14:27 AM BlueCrest: Root & branch By Andrew Howard Shortly before Christmas the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the case of HMRC v BlueCrest Capital Management LP & Others...
12/14/2023 12:17:42 PM Private capital: UK and EU tax initiatives to be aware of in 2024 By Andrew Howard Chris Agnoli Benjamin Wonnacott The UK’s tax strategy stabilised in 2023 – at least in the near-term – following a very disruptive 2022. Two fiscal events saw...
11/30/2023 11:12:04 AM Jeremy “Hunting” for growth: Autumn Statement 2023 By David Dowling Benjamin Wonnacott George Longworth Omar Asfar +1 more... Show less British Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt continues “hunting” for growth in the Autumn Statement 2023. The budget contained a...
5/19/2023 9:02:28 AM Why pharma should pay attention to the Labour Party’s plans for the NHS and clinical trials By David Dowling Tim Waters In the wake of the Conservative Party’s bruising local election results, there is a continued focus on what a Labour-led Government might...
5/15/2023 9:08:16 AM Call of Duty: The proposed reform of UK stamp taxes on shares By Benjamin Wonnacott HMRC’s recently-launched Stamp Taxes on Shares modernisation consultation gives welcome new impetus to the much-needed reform of the UK...
3/20/2023 12:20:24 PM What does Jeremy Hunt’s “budget for growth” mean for tech and life sciences investors? By David Dowling Edward Machin Tim Waters Francesca Bell +1 more... Show less Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has released a “Budget for growth”. The political messaging continues Rishi Sunak’s...
3/2/2023 1:12:21 PM Pillar 2 - Grouping issues for private equity and sovereign wealth funds By Andrew Howard The OECD’s Pillar 2 model rules, once adopted by a critical mass of participating jurisdictions, will require multinational groups with...
3/1/2023 11:39:56 AM What does Rishi Sunak's Northern Ireland deal mean for life sciences in the UK? By David Dowling The political news this week in the UK is full of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s deal with the EU. The so-called 'Windsor Framework' sets...