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01 August 2014
Issue: 7617 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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VAT

Airtours Holidays Transport Ltd v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2014] EWCA Civ 1033, [2014] All ER (D) 244 (Jul)

The appropriate test to determine whether there was a supply of services to a taxable person for the purposes of s 24(1) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994, as laid down in Customs and Excise Commissioners v Redrow [1999] 2 All ER 1, [1999] STC 161 was to ask whether something was “being done for him [the taxable person] for which, in the course or furtherance of a business carried on by him, he has had to pay a consideration which has attracted value added tax”. In the light of other authorities (Revenue and Customs Comrs v Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd [2013] UKSC 15, [2013] 2 All ER 719; WHA Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2013] UKSC 24, [2013] 2 All ER 907; and Revenue and Customs Comrs v Loyalty Management UK Ltd: C-53/09 and C-55/09 [2010] STC 2651, [2010] All ER (D) 98 (Oct)), there had been a refinement, or gloss applied, to

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn—Richard Surtees

Gibson Dunn adds employee benefits and executive compensation practice in London with partner Richard Surtees

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL—Alec Cameron

Laytons ETL appoints new partner and head of intellectual property disputes

Muckle LLP—Roland Fairlamb

Muckle LLP—Roland Fairlamb

Specialist associate solicitor rejoins Muckle’s leading employment team

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