Giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee can be a daunting experience.

The UK's HM Revenue & Customs has recently released new policy guidance on the appropriate steps for the deduction of VAT on the import of goods into the UK.

The Department of Justice has announced the creation of an interagency task force designed to investigate and prosecute financial crimes of the type believed to play a role in causing the current financial crisis.

In this edition of Pensions Round-Up we look at key developments in pensions legislation, case law and regulatory guidance from October 2019 including

Historically, countries such as the US and Australia have been the most active proponents of Class Action activity, but the picture is changing across the UK and Europe and it is vital that our clients are alive to the potential risks that this brings.

While a range of outcomes, including a departure under the terms of the current Withdrawal Agreement, remains possible

While a range of outcomes, including a departure under the terms of the current Withdrawal Agreement, remains possible, it is important for businesses to plan for a no-deal Brexit.

Some maisons have built their empire on motifs made by combining the initials of the founder's name or, more generally, alphabetic letters. However, although the commercial value of...

Picture this: you are walking home from work one evening after a tiring day. Out of the corner of your eye, you notice a digital display in a shop window

The Advocate General opinion in Case C-276/18: KrakVet involved the place of supply rules for goods. The basic rule is that where goods are dispatched or transported by the supplier, the place...

The debate over whether and to what extent it should be possible to patent software and computer-implemented inventions has heated up again following the decision in Astron Clinica and others Applications [2008] EWHC 85 (Pat).

Our 2019 in review, 2020 preview compiles the most significant developments and trends across Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas in 2019...

A recent decision by the UK financial services regulators, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority,

The outbreak of the Wuhan novel coronavirus COVID-19 has caused, and continues to cause, great uncertainty for organisations operating in the region as well as businesses around the world that rely on China for trade.

In KPC Herning (C-71/18), the taxpayer, a property developer and construction company, entered into an arrangement with a low-rent housing body for the creation of social housing units on land ...

In the Romanian case of Amarasti Land Investment SRL, (C-707/18), the court considered the effect of a contractual arrangement between the parties to the sale of land for the first registration...

The New Zealand Inland Revenue has released an Officials' Issues Paper on Purchase Price Allocation setting out its proposals ...

GCC VAT regimes – State of play 2020 – In June 2016 the six GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)) signed the GCC VAT Framework...

On 4 May 2016, the text of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union

SAGIA, MoCI, sports and tourism authorities and other entities reformed as ministries, human resources and social development consolidated.