by David Jones | Oct 27, 2022 | VAT
My sister-in-law recently told me that she used to use marshmallows as a bribe to persuade her son to tidy his bedroom, with the bigger the mess, the bigger the marshmallow. In today’s brilliantly bonkers tax tribunal case, they did not consider the...
by David Jones | Oct 20, 2022 | Self Assessment
This is a story about a lovely lady in her late70’s, Cath Rigby, who is a neighbour of mine. Cath, a retired nurse, had never needed to complete a tax return until just over 10 years ago, when she inherited her mum’s house and decided to rent it out to bolster her...
by David Jones | Sep 1, 2022 | Business Tax, Tax Investigations
Today’s Blog concerns the highly entertaining but farcical tribunal case of a charity ‘Thursford Enterprises Ltd’, who in 2017 put on what they billed as The Christmas Spectacular and claimed 20% theatre tax relief. The charity had produced a Christmas show and...
by David Jones | Jul 14, 2022 | VAT
Whether some procedures purportedly carried out for medical purposes qualify for VAT exemption has always been a grey area. Today I’m looking at a recent VAT tribunal case when Skin Rich Ltd, failed in their attempt to obtain a ruling that Botox and nail fungal...
by David Jones | May 20, 2021 | Business Tax, VAT
The phrase ‘opening up a can of worms’ is frequently heard in relation to the wonderful world of tax, and the rules surrounding it. Unfortunately, opening a can of worms, appears to be exactly what HMRC are planning to do, in their current examination of the rules on...