Jason Croke
Member Since: 6th Mar 2020
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Jason has over 20 years’ experience working exclusively in indirect taxes (VAT, import duty, SDLT) with owner-managed businesses, corporates and not for profit sectors. He particularly enjoys challenging HMRC decisions, representing clients in tribunals or during inspections.
Experience includes land and property, partial exemption and European VAT matters but equally happy with a VAT registration too. VAT and duty is a complicated subject, his main strength is being able to explain complex law in an easy-to-understand manner. It has often been said that he actually makes the subject of VAT sound interesting, but we will let you be the judge of that! In his spare time, cycling, regular (but not obsessive) trips to the gym, skiing in winter and hiking in the summer and is married with one teenage daughter.
VAT Director Rayner Essex
22nd Mar 2024
Death and taxes: Live-streaming of funerals now VAT exempt
As Benjamin Franklin's famous idiom goes, nothing in life is certain except death and taxes. The recent update relating to the live-...
Business tax
6th Mar 2024
Chancellor scraps multiple dwellings relief
Jeremy Hunt used his Budget to abolish multiple dwelling relief (MDR) with effect from 1 June 2024. Part of stamp duty land tax (SDLT)...
Personal tax
6th Mar 2024
Token VAT threshold rise won’t benefit SMEs or HMRC
In a somewhat surprising move, Jeremy Hunt used his latest Budget to increase the VAT registration threshold to £90,000 from 1 April 2024...
Business tax
6th Mar 2024
Spring Budget 2024: Chancellor repeats freeze on fuel and alcohol duties
Fuel Duty Fuel Duty remains frozen for a further 12 months, which brought much chuntering from the opposition. Government policy is that...
Business tax
13th Feb 2024
Further changes to VAT on energy-saving materials
The zero rate of VAT, announced in the Spring Budget 2022 and from 1 April 2022 until 31 March 2027, applies to the installation of certain...
HMRC & policy
4th Jan 2024
Buying property at auction and the option to tax
Purchasing a commercial property at auction is a common occurrence but sometimes the commercial property listed for auction may be being...
HMRC & policy
13th Dec 2023
HMRC targets hot food traders through their agents
It is not unusual for HMRC to target a specific sector and to write to traders, and it's not unusual for HMRC to write such letters in a...
Business tax
12th Dec 2023
A little gold goes a long way in VAT tribunal
This case involves a jeweller who exported gold which would be turned into jewellery and imported back into the UK. The gold was taken via...
HMRC & policy
30th Nov 2023
Reverse-charge VAT rule is flipping confusing
Reverse charge is a catch-all phrase that acts as either an anti-avoidance measure or a simplification. Its purpose is to flip normal VAT...
HMRC & policy
28th Nov 2023
Deadline extended for DIY housebuilder VAT claims
As part of HMRC’s continuing mission to move taxpayer interactions online and away from telephones and post, HMRC has announced the...
HMRC & policy