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Welcome to Tax update, which provides a round-up and explanation of the latest tax issues.

In our last newsletter, we looked at a potential tax trap when buying overseas property through a company. Now there’s further legislative news that could affect property holding companies.

A recent VAT Tribunal concerned hire-purchase agreements entered into by the Lombard Finance Group (part of the appellant’s VAT group) with its customers.The bank had applied a VAT recovery rate of 15%, as negotiated back in the 1970s between HM Customs & Excise and the Finance Houses Association.

The scope of capital gains tax (CGT) has been extended and now applies to gains arising on the sale of UK residential property by non-UK tax residents (non-residents).

Equities rallied mildly in July as investors entertained hopes that policymakers might respond more effectively to mounting evidence of a slowing global economy.

A number of further amendments made to the disclosure requirements for companies with defined benefit schemes may be unwelcome news for those who have only just come to terms with the complex disclosure requirements of FRS 17.

Stagecoach Theatre Arts is an Aimlisted, market-leading franchise network of part-time performing arts and sports schools for youngsters.

The Basic Payment Scheme came into effect on 1 January 2015. In England pretty much all of the scheme rules are known and the Rural Payments Agency has published the final guidance handbook for the 2015 BPS.

Bond yields in Spain and Italy have fallen from the highs seen in mid-July due to speculation that the European Central Bank (ECB) is ready to step up its efforts and intervene once more in bond markets.

Is there an Asian bubble and are fears that it will burst justified? Asian markets led the recovery out of the global financial crisis. They were in a far stronger position than developed markets, which were only just beginning the painful process of deleveraging.

Many charities and not-for-profit organisations will be affected by the introduction of VAT on a number of Royal Mail postal services from 2 April this year.

The announcement of a merger between Arla and Milk Link looks set to form the basis of a major reshaping of the UK dairy processing sector.

A new group of marketleading global companies may offer investors some stability in turbulent times.

Three new proposed accounting standards from the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) are set to change the face of UK financial reporting.

The Urgent Issues Task Force (UITF) Abstract 44 “FRS 20 (IFRS 2) – Group and Treasury Share Transactions” provides clarity when applying FRS 20 in three situations which are not explicitly dealt with in the standard.

Do you have the necessary protection in place to safeguard your business? Running your own business may leave you little time to consider your financial future, but what would you do if a critical illness, such as heart attack or stroke, forced you to be absent from work?

The aim of the Patent Box regime is to "provide an additional incentive for companies to retain and commercialise existing patents and to develop new innovative patented products".