INDEPENDENT CAPITAL ALLOWANCES SPECIALISTS

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Underground Gas Storage Cavities & Capital Allowances

CHESHIRE CAVITY STORAGE 1 LIMITED and EDF ENERGY (GAS STORAGE HOLE HOUSE) LIMITED V HMRC [2019]

FIRST TIER TRIBUNAL TAX CHAMBER (FTT)

Background

Both
appellants were companies in the EDF Energy PLC Corporate Group and they
operate gas storage facilities on adjoining site is Cheshire. The Companies
used underground cavities filled with brine to store gas and incurred costs […]

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Capital Allowances – Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment Expenditure

Capital Allowances – Keeping track of accounts coded Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment expenditure – Be careful!

Typically, Accountants recognise the potential to claim
allowances on accounts coded Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment (FF&E). This
is normally for directly paid invoices for equipment where the invoice
descriptions are clear and unambiguous. These are normally identified in the
commercial accounts and coded […]

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Groundhog Day – HMRC Loses Appeal To Upper Tax Tribunal: Late Capital Allowances Claim

Further to our article titled ‘The Lazarus Impact – Making very Late Capital Allowances Claims’ where the First Tier Tax Tribunal allowed a pub company (the taxpayer) to file a very late capital allowances claim. HMRC appealed the First Tier Tax Tribunal’s decision at the Upper Tax Tribunal.

The taxpayer won again and HMRC
lost the […]

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Definition of what Constitutes Qualifying Expenditure for BPRA Claims

LONDON LUTON HOTEL BPRA PROPERTY FUND LLP V THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HMRC

FIRST TIER TRIBUNAL TAX CHAMBER

This is a significant case heard by the First Tier Tribunal
(FTT) concerning a BPRA claim and the definition of qualifying expenditure ‘on
or in connection with’.  HMRC have
typically considered that BPRA claims often include items of expenditure that
they deem […]

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Structures and Buildings Allowances – Update

Following the announcement in October 2018 of the
introduction of a new capital allowance for expenditure incurred on non-residential
structures and buildings (SBA), HMRC have now published detailed secondary
legislation for consultation.

Comments are invited by 24th April 2019, with an
overall response to the consultation published in May 2019.

Once finalised, it will be introduced as a Statutory
Instrument and the […]

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Resolving Capital Allowances Figures where Buyer and Seller are unable to agree quantum of Allowances on a Nursing Home

By : March 15, 2019 Comments Off on Resolving Capital Allowances Figures where Buyer and Seller are unable to agree quantum of Allowances on a Nursing Home

GLAIS HOUSE CARE LIMITED V THE COMISSIONER FOR HER MAJESTY’S REVENUE & CUSTOMS [2019]

UKFTT 0059 (TC)

Summary

HMRC has lost an interesting capital allowances case where it tried to limit the Taxpayer’s purchase price attributable to second-hand fixed plant and machinery to £1. The tax payer had claimed allowances of £318,792 based […]

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Capital Allowances Plant and Machinery in a Civil Engineering Context Update

By : February 28, 2019 Comments Off on Capital Allowances Plant and Machinery in a Civil Engineering Context Update

UPDATE ON CASE

SSE GENERATION LIMITED V THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HMRC

HMRC TO CHALLENGE THE FIRST TIER TRIBUNAL TAX CHAMBER RULING

 

HMRC have decided to challenge the ruling given by the First Tier Tax Tribunal which they considered was largely in favour of the taxpayer.  The case is to be heard by […]

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