British Master Tax Guide 2015-16

The CCH British Master Tax Guide provides an overview of all the main UK taxes in a single, concise volume.  Hundreds of fully worked examples are included with extensive cross-references to legislation, cases and to the more in-depth coverage in the CCH British Tax Reporter and the CCH British VAT Reporter.

Note:  The 2015-16 edition will include all changes from the 2015 Budget and subsequent Finance Act.  It will also include coverage of any further finance act(s) after the general election and before publication.  Items listed below under What’s new for 2015? are those that are currently known about.

Key features

• Includes commentary on the most significant tax cases
• Includes commentary on legislation
• Illustrates the key issues in UK tax to provide clarity on the law
• Each chapter is headed by a summary of key points and a What's New? section
• Contains a review and distillation of over 1,000 tax cases and 175 tax statutory instruments that arose during 2014

What's new for 2015?

A key issue this year has been the creation of separate tax regimes for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are fully covered in this title.  Other developments that we are aware of so far include:

• A new ‘Mini One Stop Shop’ VAT regime for businesses supplying digital services to private consumers
• Complete rethink of the SDLT regime
• Changes to NI contributions around apprentices and avoidance
• Introduction of the direct recovery of debts by HMRC
• Non-residents to pay capital gains tax on disposals of UK residential property
• Strengthening of the regime for the disclosure of tax avoidance schemes
• A new diverted profits tax, targeted at multinationals