Podcast: Tax news highlights: April 2021

In this podcast, Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling provide an overview of the UK Government’s announcements made on Tax Day, 23 March 2021, highlighting three measures that were shelved and three measures on which further information will be published in due course.

Five consultations are discussed in more detail: the call for evidence on the tax administration framework to support a 21st century tax system, the second consultation on the notification of uncertain tax treatment by large businesses, the consultation on options for updating transfer pricing documentation requirements, the consultation on raising standards in the tax advice market which focusses on the introduction of compulsory professional indemnity insurance for tax advisers, and the consultation on the reform of the taxation of securitisation companies.

The podcast covers the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Cases C-459/19 Wellcome Trust, considering whether a taxable person is “acting as such” for the purposes of Article 44 of the Principal VAT Directive when receiving supplies for the purposes of its non-economic business activities, and C-812/19 Danske Bank on the VAT treatment of supplies between a VAT-grouped head office and its non-VAT-grouped foreign branch. Zoe and Tanja also briefly touch on DAC7.

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