The last few weeks have seen a number of cryptoasset milestones reach the mainstream press - in that context it is perhaps a tad...
Understandably, dealing with the economic impact of Covid–19 dominated Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget. But the UK government...
Will the UK actually introduce its digital services tax (DST)? The UK DST is intended to apply from 1 April 2020, although the...
In December 2018, I wrote a blog about HMRC’s guidance for individuals on the taxation of cryptoassets. HMRC has, nearly a year later,...
The question of how the tax regime should adapt to reflect modern working practices is a difficult one. There has been a rise in the...
The recently published brochure, UK FinTech State of the Nation, summarises the UK's fintech industry and demonstrates the UK's...
There is a common recent development in the tax systems of the UK, France, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, and Spain. All of...
Poland introduced a progressive tax based on turnover in 2016. Small shops with low monthly turnover paid no tax, whereas large...
The "marketing intangibles" proposal has emerged from the OECD's public consultation discussions as the most likely of the OECD's...
On 12 March 2019, EU governments dropped plans to introduce an EU-wide digital tax. Despite months of talks, the Member States failed to...
Last week, the French finance minister introduced a bill for a 3% levy on the turnover of digital services companies with revenues of...
In 2018, the UK government launched an independent review, led by veteran journalist Dame Frances Cairncross, to understand what could be...
The last few years have seen developments in integrated technologies, such as Hypersurfaces and smart fabrics, which aim to convert...
The EU has today opened another State aid investigation, this time into tax rulings given to Nike by the Dutch tax authorities. At the...
Cryptoassets (cryptocurrency tokens such as bitcoin) are now so prevalent that HMRC has set out its view of the law about how individuals...
On 9 December 2018, the French economist Thomas Piketty and others published a manifesto for a “fairer” Europe. To fund the changes...