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14 May 2009 / Peter Vaines
Issue: 7369 / Categories: Features , Tax , Commercial
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Taxing matters

Peter Vaines reports on life, tax & quantitative pleasing

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HMRC has published its long-promised guidance on residence which replaces IR20 and all other Revenue guidance on the subject.

This is substantial and follows broadly the same format. There is also a detailed guidance note on domicile and further lengthy explanations of non-resident settlements (as well as the application of s 739 and 740 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (TA 1988) (now s 714 et seq Income Tax Act 2007). To complete the set we have a big document entitled RDRM—the Residence Domicile and Remittances Manual.

I suppose we have been asking for it—if you will pardon the expression. I guess you would call it “quantitative pleasing”. This needs careful analysis and I will return to it in due course.

Attention: Form withdrawal

Immediately before the new guidance was issued, a press release gave details of some other changes on residence and domicile issues. The first of these is that forms DOM1 are being withdrawn. Now

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Keystone Law—Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel & Ian Hopkinson

Keystone Law—Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel & Ian Hopkinson

International arbitration team strengthened by double partner hire

Coodes Solicitors—Pam Johns, Rachel Pearce & Bradley Kaine

Coodes Solicitors—Pam Johns, Rachel Pearce & Bradley Kaine

Firm celebrates trio holding senior regional law society and junior lawyers division roles

Michelman Robinson—Sukhi Kaler

Michelman Robinson—Sukhi Kaler

Partner joins commercial and business litigation team in London

NEWS
The Legal Action Group (LAG)—the UK charity dedicated to advancing access to justice—has unveiled its calendar of training courses, seminars and conferences designed to support lawyers, advisers and other legal professionals in tackling key areas of public interest law
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 transformed criminal justice. Writing in NLJ this week, Ed Cape of UWE and Matthew Hardcastle and Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley trace its ‘seismic impact’
Operational resilience is no longer optional. Writing in NLJ this week, Emma Radmore and Michael Lewis of Womble Bond Dickinson explain how UK regulators expect firms to identify ‘important business services’ that could cause ‘intolerable levels of harm’ if disrupted
As the drip-feed of Epstein disclosures fuels ‘collateral damage’, the rush to cry misconduct in public office may be premature. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke of Hill Dickinson warns that the offence is no catch-all for political embarrassment. It demands a ‘grave departure’ from proper standards, an ‘abuse of the public’s trust’ and conduct ‘sufficiently serious to warrant criminal punishment’
Employment law is shifting at the margins. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ this week, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School examines a Court of Appeal ruling confirming that volunteers are not a special legal species and may qualify as ‘workers’
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