Selling to an Employee Ownership Trust By John Dunlop Selling to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) has amazing benefits beyond the tax free nature of the…
DAC Beachcroft's Spring 2023 Budget Alert By John Dunlop, , From a tax point of view the headline of this budget is that it appears to allow people to make…
NHS foundation trust wins legal case and is entitled to a VAT refund on operating theatre consumables By Alison Martin, Carol Sumner, John Dunlop Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (the “Trust”) brought a claim for judicial review…
HMRC loses its appetite for blueberry croissants and vegan cocktails… By John Dunlop, Lindsay Elliott HMRC is taking action against professional advisers and companies who HMRC consider are…
Mini Budget - Tax announcements By John Dunlop, , The major news outlets will shortly be all over the headlines of the mini / emergency Budget which…
Housebuilder Tip of the Month: Compensation and VAT By John Dunlop, From 1 April 2022, HMRC will treat most early termination and compensation payments as within the…
Real Estate M&A 2021 By David Manifould, Andrew Boulton, John Dunlop, Michelle Jones, Paul McCartney DAC Beachcroft’s Corporate Real Estate Team considers the negotiation and completion of real estate…
Housebuilder Tip of the Month: SDLT - Getting ready for your next Joint Venture By John Dunlop Sometimes developments require you to team up with another developer (or even more than one…
One minute with... John Dunlop By John Dunlop Our Head of Tax and Incentives, John Dunlop, was recently interviewed by the Tax Journal.
DAC Beachcroft's Spring 2021 Budget Alert By John Dunlop, The Frozen Budget The Chancellor set out his road map for the rebalancing of the books following…
TAX - 3 Ways For Your Business To Get Ahead By John Dunlop, It is easy to ignore tax structuring when focussed on winning business and generating revenue…
Real Estate Tip of the Week: Compensation Sums and VAT – A Major U-Turn By John Dunlop If a tenant exercises a break clause and pays a break fee you should be aware that the VAT…
How to motivate staff (and Founders) as we return to normal? By John Dunlop, It doesn’t take a genius to work out that pretty much every business has been shaken to its core,…
COVID-19: Furlough Scheme – Guidance for Companies By Jonathan Brogden, John Dunlop, Louise Bloomfield The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (“CJRS”), which has been in place since March 2020, has proven…
Real Estate Tip of the Week: Be Prepared for Capital Gains Tax Payment Change By John Dunlop From 6 April 2020, when a UK resident sells UK residential property they will only have 30 days to…
DAC Beachcroft's Spring 2020 Budget Alert By John Dunlop, With all that is happening in the wider world led by the Coronavirus, today’s budget was headlined…
Real Estate M&A 2020 By David Manifould, Michelle Jones, John Dunlop, Andrew Boulton Selecting the right structure for potential real estate investments, from funding, acquisition,…
IR35 and the construction industry By John Dunlop Construction analysis: John Dunlop, head of tax at DAC Beachcroft, considers the potential impact…
It's All In The Timing: Bringing claims under SPA tax indemnities and W&I insurance - A review of the decision in Minera v Glencore By Richard Highley, John Dunlop In this article, we comment on issues arising in claims for tax losses under SPAs and W&I…
The rise of employee ownership trusts By John Dunlop It was the Finance Act 2014 which introduced certain tax reliefs relating to companies owned by an…