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Tax law [2025] UKFTT 1417

Places for People Homes Ltd v Revenue and Customs (VALUE ADDED TAX - residential blocks of flats - VAT treatment of service charges - management trustee company party to tripartite lease - whether supplies my management trustee is an exempt supply of land - Sch 9, Group 1, VAT Act 1994)

Places for People Homes Ltd v Revenue and Customs (VALUE ADDED TAX - residential blocks of flats - VAT treatment of service charges - management trustee company party to tripartite lease - whether supplies my management trustee is an exempt supply of land - Sch 9, Group 1, VAT Act 1994) [2025] UKFTT 1417 (TC) (24 November 2025)

The Tribunal held that maintenance trust companies’ supplies under tripartite residential leases were taxable, not exempt land supplies, and that staff costs were not VAT disbursements.

  • Vat on residential service charges
  • Exempt supply of land
  • Composite supply
  • Disbursements for vat
  • Tripartite lease arrangements
  • Maintenance trust companies
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Tax law [2025] UKFTT 1503 (TC)

Murphy & Ors v Revenue and Customs (CAPITAL GAINS TAX - whether the appellants have made a valid claim for relief from CGT on the disposal of shares made by Trusts of which the appellants were settlors and beneficiaries under article 14(4) of UK/New Zealand double tax agreement - whether the appellants are entitled to relief)

Murphy & Ors v Revenue and Customs (CAPITAL GAINS TAX - whether the appellants have made a valid claim for relief from CGT on the disposal of shares made by Trusts of which the appellants were settlors and beneficiaries under article 14(4) of UK/New Zealand double tax agreement - whether the appellants are entitled to relief) [2025] UKFTT 1503 (TC) (01 December 2024)

The tribunal held that valid treaty-relief claims were made for CGT, but article 14(4) of the UK-New Zealand treaty did not relieve the gains; HMRC’s assessment against David Harris was invalid.

  • Capital gains tax
  • Double tax agreements
  • Discovery assessments
  • Claims for treaty relief
  • Trust residence
  • Place of effective management
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Charity law [2023] UKFTT 805 (GRC)

Miller & Anor v The Charity Commission for England and Wales & Anor

Miller & Anor v The Charity Commission for England and Wales & Anor [2023] UKFTT 805 (GRC) (21 September 2023)

The Tribunal found a cy-près occasion had arisen for Victoria Hall Trust, but held the Charity Commission’s scheme was not the most appropriate and ordered it revisited.

  • Cy-près scheme
  • Charitable trusts
  • Scheme of arrangement
  • Trustee governance
  • Conflict of interest
  • Charity-law
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Trusts [2023] UKPC 16

Lea Lilly Perry and another (Appellants) v Lopag Trust Reg and another (Respondents) No 2 (Cayman Islands)

The Privy Council dismissed an appeal, holding that concurrent findings on Israeli matrimonial property law and Liechtenstein trust law should not be disturbed.

  • Matrimonial property under foreign law
  • Concurrent findings of fact
  • Equitable mistake
  • Enforcement of trust rights by beneficiaries
  • Application of foreign law in domestic courts
  • Concurrent-findings-of-fact
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Property law [2018] UKPC 29

Suppo (Appellant) v Jhundoo (Respondent) (Mauritius)

The Privy Council restored an order for sale of land, holding that a 2001 deed was admissible as written evidence of a trust and that the purchase was tainted by illegality.

  • Contre lettre
  • Beneficial ownership
  • Illegality of property acquisition by non-citizens
  • Admissibility of evidence
  • Commencement de preuve par écrit
  • Contre-lettre
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Equity [2017] UKPC 27

Chen (Appellant) v Ng (Respondent) (British Virgin Islands)

The Privy Council held that the BVI courts had jurisdiction, but set aside the ownership ruling and ordered a new trial because key reasons for rejecting evidence were not put in cross-examination.

  • Resulting trust
  • Beneficial ownership of shares
  • Jurisdiction
  • Consideration
  • Rectification of register
  • Resulting-trust
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