
Tax News: May 2026
For this month’s edition, Gabrielle Pereira and Alex Dustan join Zoe Andrew to discuss: Supreme Court's Gunfleet Sands decision: A restrictive ruling on capital allowances for predevelopment costs Electricity Generator L

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Want to keep up with the latest developments in UK, EU and international tax? Tax News is a monthly series hosted by London-based tax lawyers Tanja Velling and Zoe Andrews, focussing on issues relevant to large UK and multinational businesses.
Slaughter and May hosts Tax News, a business show with 69 episodes published.

For this month’s edition, Gabrielle Pereira and Alex Dustan join Zoe Andrew to discuss: Supreme Court's Gunfleet Sands decision: A restrictive ruling on capital allowances for predevelopment costs Electricity Generator L

For this month’s edition, Ed Milliner joins Zoe Andrews to discuss three cases: Sintra (CA) – burden of proof in tax penalty appeals, Lycamobile (UT) – VAT on bundle plans (and two perfect quotes about VAT…), and Muller

For this month’s edition, Jamshed Bilimoria joins Zoe Andrews to discuss three cases: Hotel La Tour (Supreme Court judgment on input VAT recovery on deal fees), Tower One St George Wharf (Court of Appeal decision on SDLT

For this month’s edition, Alex Sim joined Zoe Andrews to discuss three cases of the FTT: Dialog (the tax treatment of break fees), Boulting (purchase of own shares was not a distribution) and Ferrero (the VAT treatment o

Sarah Osprey joined Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling to discuss trends in HMRC enquiries and the use of criminal investigation powers in a tax context. The podcast then covers the Supreme Court’s decision in Prudential Assu

Sarah Osprey joined Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling to talk about tax disputes and our exciting new project in this area. The podcast further covers three decisions of the First-tier Tribunal: Currys Retail on the capital

Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling discuss the following recent cases: Dolphin Drilling: the Supreme Court’s decision on the meaning of “incidental” should not be read as having wider application beyond the oil contractor reg

Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling are joined by Arvind Ravichandran, Tax Partner at Cravath, to discuss the impact the proposed section 899 could have on US capital markets if enacted but how it is unlikely to be a big issue

Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling discuss the Upper Tribunal’s decisions in Walkers Snack Foods on the VAT classification of “Sensations Poppadoms” and Rettig Heating Group, the judicial review of HMRC’s refusal of a late cl

Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling discuss the First-tier Tribunal’s decisions in: Candy giving overpayment relief for an SDLT charge on the substantial performance of a contract that was later cancelled Refinitiv on the taxp

Partner Alex Dustan from our Infrastructure and Energy team joined the April 2025 edition of our Tax News podcast to discuss the consultation on a “new permanent mechanism…to respond to future oil and gas price shocks” o

In this podcast, tax associate Stephanie Mullins joins Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling to discuss the UK Supreme Court’s decision in Royal Bank of Canada which could call into question received wisdom on the Ramsay princip

In this podcast, Tax Associate Nadia Hourihan joins Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling to discuss the Court of Appeal’s decision in ScottishPower that payments in lieu of penalties are tax deductible (even though no tax deduc

In this podcast, Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling discuss the First-tier Tribunal’s decision in Blackfriars Hotel applying an anti-avoidance provision in the loss relief regime to a loss-refreshing transaction reminiscent o

In this special episode of our Tax News podcast, Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling asked Arvind Ravichandran, Tax Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, what U.S. tax policy may look like during a second Trump Administratio

In this podcast, Catrin Young, Senior Professional Support Lawyer in the Pensions Team, joins Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling to discuss the government’s policy decision at the Autumn Budget to bring unused pension savings

In this podcast, tax associate Alex Sim joins Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling to discuss the Upper Tribunal’s decision in Muller on the interaction of certain provisions in the intangible fixed assets regime with the rules

In this podcast, Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling highlight points related to the Chancellor’s statement on public spending inheritance. They also discuss updated HMRC guidance on the multinational top-up tax and domestic t

Join Tanja Velling, co-host of our Tax News podcast and Tax Partners, Dominic Robertson and Charles Osborne, as they discuss the unallowable purpose rule, one of the UK's restrictions on companies deducting interest when

In this podcast, Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling share thoughts on the IFS publication “The government’s record on tax 2010-24” and HMRC’s estimate of the tax gap for the tax year 2022/23 in the context of Labour’s general
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