The non-resident tennis player taxpayer appealed a charge to tax in respect of payments made for his sporting activities within the UK, made by overseas companies to other overseas companies owned by the taxpayer. Held: The Act provided that the activities of sportsmen were to be treated as trade payments, and any payment made in … Continue reading Agassi v S Robinson (HM Inspector of Taxes): ChD 17 Mar 2004
Corporation Tax – group relief – claimant company resident in the United Kingdom – subsidiaries resident in other EU member states – whether making a claim for group relief implies the withdrawal of an earlier claim for group relief in respect of losses of companies resident in the United Kingdom – whether claim made in … Continue reading Linpac v Revenue and Customs (Income Tax/Corporation Tax : Exemptions and Reliefs): FTTTx 31 Jan 2020
The Court was asked whether an employee’s remuneration is taxable as his or her emoluments or earnings when it is paid to a third party in circumstances in which the employee had no prior entitlement to receive it himself or herself. Held: The company’s appeal failed. The purposive approach to the interpretation of the general … Continue reading RFC 2012 Plc (Formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland: SC 5 Jul 2017
The tax payer played tennis and was paid sums for when he played in England. The sums were paid to his overseas based company. Held: The revenue’s appeal succeeded. The ‘legislative intendment in relation to sections 555 and 556, and their statutory predecessors in the 1986 Act, was that foreign entertainers and sportsmen who, or … Continue reading Agassi v Her Majesty’s Inspector of Taxes: HL 17 May 2006
Foreign Public Law Not Enforceable Here The claimant alleged a conspiracy by the defendants for his overthrow by means of a private coup d’etat. The defendants denied that the court had jurisdiction. The claimants appealed dismissal of their claim to damages. Held: The claims were not justiciable here. Public laws, like penal laws, may not … Continue reading Mbasogo, President of the State of Equatorial Guinea and Another v Logo Ltd and others: CA 23 Oct 2006
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