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The Law Society has responded to HMRC’s consultation on a range of new measures to disrupt the business models relied on by promoters of tax avoidance

Nick Leigh reports on the occasional eyebrow-raising qualities of tax law

Behemoth case SKAT, brought by the Danish tax authorities in hot pursuit of £1.5bn lost in alleged dividend tax fraud, was one of the biggest civil litigation claims to come before the English courts, writes Rosenblatt senior associate Nick Leigh in this week’s NLJ.

Denmark has been ordered to pay indemnity costs to more than 90 defendants after losing its claim for recovery of more than £1.5bn lost in an alleged dividend trading fraud.

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has published a report which notes that the stamp duty holiday has increased sales figures by almost 140%

Property buyers may be overpaying millions of pounds of stamp duty land tax (SDLT) each year, tax specialists Cornerstone has warned

Bring your tax learning home with Tolley Tax Webinars: Q2 2020

Implementation of the private sector IR35 tax reforms has been postponed for another year

Lawyers have slated the decision by the Chancellor to press ahead with IR35 implementation in April

Lawyers questioned the effectiveness of an economic crime levy without wider investment in the criminal justice system as a whole

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NLJ this week: Motor commissions & fiduciary duties

The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings

NLJ this week: The power of Interpol red notices

Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Approach with caution post-Mazur

Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?

Philip Sales is selected as next Deputy President

Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year

Tax shock ahead for partners?

Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget

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Tax

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington