Andy Keates
Member Since: 30th Jun 2017
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Tax writer
28th May 2020
How tax advisers can be negligent
Cases of professional negligence frequently turn as much on what was not said as on what was said. Hurlingham The leading case is...
HMRC & policy
20th May 2020
IHT: No relief on £976,781 gift to UKIP
Banks wished to obtain IHT relief under IHTA 1984 s24 (gifts to political parties). Relief was denied because, under the rules specified in...
Personal tax
5th May 2020
Pension election accepted, nine years late
Peter Hayes (TC07586) missed the deadline of 5 April 2009 for registering his pension for “lifetime allowance protection” (FA 2004 Sch 36...
Personal tax
14th Apr 2020
Tax scheme promoters scuppered by own scheme
The Alchemy scheme is a complex tax avoidance scheme using a combination of spread bets on financial markets to benefit directors and their...
Business tax
12th Mar 2020
Budget 2020: Excess pension contribution charges eased
It would have been too much to expect a draft Finance Bill to be published which did not include some tinkering with the pension tax regime...
HMRC & policy
4th Mar 2020
Stale discoveries lead to failed assessments
Where there is an unreasonable delay between HMRC’s discovery that insufficient tax has been charged and issuing an assessment, the...
HMRC & policy
24th Feb 2020
Upper tribunal slaps HMRC for overreaching
In October 2018 , I wrote about the case of Nigel Rogers where the first tier tribunal (FTT) struck out penalties because HMRC could not...
HMRC & policy
18th Feb 2020
Tax penalties, escalators and carried dogs
Duncan Hansard ( 2019 UKUT 0391 ) was over 12 months late submitting his tax returns for 2010/11 and 2011/12 and received flat rate...
Personal tax
3rd Feb 2020
Pension loan sharks preyed on taxpayers
A desire for some pension administrators and other financial organisations to generate fees and commissions has led to some pension scheme...
Business tax
27th Jan 2020
HMRC eclipsed in follower notice fiasco
Follower notices (FNs) can be issued to taxpayers who have used a tax avoidance scheme if HMRC can point to a final ruling of a court or...
HMRC & policy