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Tax Avoidance Schemes and Negligent Advice – what to do if you’re caught out

Umbrellas are useful at this time of the year, as the seasons change and the misty drizzle returns. But the right umbrella is critical: if it isn’t sturdy and wind-resistant it may not keep you dry. The same is true of umbrella companies that are used by agency workers, contractors, and self-employed professionals to manage their payroll administration.

Davisons Solicitors v Nationwide Building Society

In what has been hailed as a ‘return to common sense’ by solicitors, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a solicitor is not liable for a building society’s losses after paying more than £180,000 of mortgage monies over to an imposter. Lenders may disagree.

Solicitors found negligent when failing to register a property transfer that facilitated fraud

If solicitors fail to do their job properly, with the result that a fraudulent transaction is not carried out as intended, are the solicitors still liable?

Increasing sector borrowing capacity

In the continuing climate of economic uncertainty, with grant funding cut back severely and traditional, long-term funding options all but dried up, housing associations have embraced bond issuance as an effective way to secure long-term finance at competitive rates.

HMRC scrutiny of family investment companies

A family investment company (FIC) is a tax-efficient vehicle allowing protection of, and control over, wealth transferred out of an individual’s estate.

Rising costs, falling trust: riding the current HMRC wave

Nathan Talbott, Head of Commercial Litigation at Wright Hassall, dissects the recent report by the Committee of Public Accounts and shares his thoughts on what HMRC needs to do to rebuild public trust

Banking security: recovering wrong payments

The ability to make and receive payments is critical to businesses and individuals. How we do this has undergone enormous change over the last decade.

Rising ground rent in new build homes: are solicitors to blame?

Over the last year there have been reports of newly built properties being effectively worth nothing after just six years due to excessive ground rent charges.

Buying your first farm

Buying any business is a daunting prospect – even if you have plenty of experience under your belt. Buying into a sector where the one of the main variables is out of your control, namely the weather, can be particularly unnerving.

VAT focus: The financial services exemption

How does a taxpayer determine which of its supplies are exempt, which are taxable, and which are zero-rated or outside the scope of VAT?