Tax news highlights: March 2022

In this podcast, Zoe Andrews and Tanja Velling consider the Chancellor’s Spring Statement which was delivered on 23 March 2022, the latest developments in the two-pillar process towards international tax reform and how the possibility of the UK’s introduction of an online sales tax sits with its international obligations. The podcast also covers a number of recent cases: the Upper Tribunal’s decision in Royal Bank of Canada where payments received by the bank, a Canadian tax resident, were subject to UK corporation tax because they were linked to an oil field, the Court of Appeal’s decision in SKAT v Solo Capital Partners on the admissibility of the Danish tax authority’s claims in relation to withholding tax refunds alleged to have been obtained through misrepresentation, the First-tier Tribunal’s decision in Cider of Sweden on third party access to documents related to proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal, and the First-tier Tribunal’s decision in Scottish Power, as contrasted with the earlier decision in BES Commercial Electricity, on the deductibility of compensation payments following regulatory failings.