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Increase In Tax Penalties Issued To UK Financial Directors
December 23rd, 2015
The number of penalties issued under UK tax authority’s Senior Accounting Officer (SAO) regime more than doubled in 2014-15, according to research by international law firm Pinsent Masons. Pinsent Masons said that 155 fines were issued in 2014-15, up ...
HMRC pushes ahead with criminalising failure to prevent tax evasion
December 11th, 2015
New offence could become a ‘damp squib’ ignored by foreign companies, warns tax lawyer HMRC is to go ahead with a bid to create a new criminal offence for failure to prevent tax evasion, despite warnings of significant challenges ...
HMRC collects £3.5bn from investigations into big businesses’ underpaid corporation tax
November 23rd, 2015
HMRC collected an extra £3.5bn in corporate tax from challenging businesses on their payments in the last tax year, according to figures from Pinsent Masons. The £3.5bn came from investigations into underpaid corporation tax carried out by HMRC’s Large Business ...
Law firms head to the banks as lawyers target expansion
August 19th, 2015
Lending tops £7.3bn as firms borrow to fund M&A, overseas offices, and lateral hires Long-term lending to UK law firms has risen by 28 per cent over the last four years to £7.35bn, as firms compete to capture a ...
Taxman steps up war on dodgers with more raids
June 22nd, 2015
Property searches by HM Revenue & Customs rose by nearly a fifth last year as the Government raised the pressure to combat tax evasion. Investigators made 593 raids in the year to 31 March, up from 500 the previous ...
Acritas’ UK Law Firm Brand Index reveals four year market winners
May 22nd, 2015
Smart strategic moves, a differentiated proposition and affinity with female buyers drive success for the UK’s leading law firm brands. Over the last four years, the UK legal market has seen many changes. Mergers together with new entrants from ...
Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards: Winners 2015
May 18th, 2015
Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards have firmly established themselves as a highlight of the region’s legal calendar. The awards, which are now in their fourth year, celebrate legal excellence in the Middle East and are open to in-house legal ...
HMRC recovers record £3.65bn in unpaid taxes
November 10th, 2014
A record amount of unpaid tax has been recovered from avoidance schemes, evasion and fraud by HMRC’s top team of specialist investigators – up by almost a quarter in the past year, says Pinsent Masons, the international law firm. ...
Top Scottish firms break recession spell with £438.2m combined turnover
September 8th, 2014
Scotland’s top independent firms have pulled out of the recession in earnest in 2013/14, with the top 20 turning over a combined revenue of £438.2m, a rise of 8 per cent on £406.9m the previous year. Brodies and Burness ...
Record award for former Yukos investors after tribunal finds “political motivation” for Russia’s actions
July 31st, 2014
An arbitral tribunal sitting in The Hague has unanimously held that the Russian Federation breached its international obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty when it liquidated and part-nationalised the former Yukos Oil Company in 2007. The Permanent Court of ...
