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Business sales: shareholders can recover VAT on costs

In 2023, a shareholder recovered the VAT paid on professional fees despite making an exempt sale of the shares in their company. HMRC rejected the shareholder’s claim, but the Tribunals have accepted the shareholder’s arguments. The case is Hotel La Tour Ltd [2023] UKUT 00178 (TCC). Shareholders should now be considering whether they can structure their share sales in order to recover VAT on professional fees, or whether share sales in the past four years qualified for input tax recovery.

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Published on 26 April 2024
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Bras: should they be subject to VAT?

There has been much discussion in the media and on social media subsequent to calls for bras not to be subject to VAT. In this article, we will set the debate on a factual footing and consider the broader context of the subject.

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Published on 18 April 2024

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