This tax tracker tool displays the current status and most recent developments of direct tax cases being heard by the Upper Tribunal (UT), the Court of Appeal, the Court of Session, the Supreme Court and the EU Court of Justice as at 7 May 2025. It is updated on a rolling monthly basis.
The tracker is split into three parts:
Cases subject to an appeal
Cases potentially subject to an appeal, and
Finalised tax cases
Recent updates are shown in bold.
This section of the tracker shows cases that are currently subject to an appeal.
Name of parties and citation | Current status |
A D Bly Groundworks and Civil Engineering Limited v HMRCCA/2024/001410; [2024] UKUT 104 (TCC); [2021] UKFTT 445 (TC) | Subject: Corporation tax 鈥� provision for pensions liabilities Status : Taxpayers鈥� appeal to the Court of Appeal scheduled to be heard by 19 September 2025 Background: The taxpayers were lead appellants in a group of appeals by companies who implemented a tax avoidance |
Allowable expenses for property businessesGeneral itemsMany of the principles applying to allowable expenses for property businesses are similar to those that apply for trading and the rules for individuals in a property business are generally the same as for companies with some exceptions which are
Spouse exemption from inheritance taxArguably, the most important inheritance tax exemption is the spouse exemption from inheritance tax.There is no IHT to pay on gifts from husband to wife and vice versa, or from one civil partner to the other (referred to collectively in this note as 鈥榮pouses鈥�).
Residential property and capital allowancesResidential property 鈥� plant and machinery allowancesOrdinary residential property does not, and never has, qualified for capital allowances. as CAA 2001, s 35 denies plant allowances for expenditure incurred in providing plant or machinery for use in a