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Reform of Business Rates is a can that has been kicked down the road so many times that many question whether true reform will ever take place. It is probably rather hopeful to assume that radical reforms will be announced in the Budget — Business Rates look set to stay for now but the Government is trying to improve the way the tax works and is likely to announce a consultation on technical changes.

Whether these make the system more palatable for businesses who question its fairness remains to be seen. State pension will probably increase in line with inflation. Therefore, although it is a recurring prediction that the Chancellor will look at tax relief for private pensions again, the current political climate will probably make that an even trickier nut to crack than before.

With the Climate Change Summit taking place in the autumn the Chancellor will want to show that he is playing his part in the effort to make the UK economy carbon neutral. For example, the strategy will set the date for phase out of domestic gas boilers and may introduce an increasing levy on gas production until they are banned.

Of course, these costs will inevitably be passed on to consumers - making a switch to more zero carbon home heating more attractive. The strategy is also expected to include incentives and grants for consumers such as the Clean Heat Grant due to start in March to make the switch to cleaner energy through the use of heat pumps and other green technologies. Given the current gas price spike, it is unlikely that any increases in costs will take full effect for some time — at least until the economy has shown consistent recovery.

However, there may also be a range of more positive headline grabbing zero-carbon measures such as car scrappage schemes, support for EV charging station roll-out and possibly even a phased return to fuel duty increases in future years.

Chancellor makes claim despite plans for tax levels to rise to highest in more than 70 years. Chancellor divides bounty between shoring up public finances and increasing spending on public services. Public spending and taxation both set to rise to highest levels in decades. Real-terms spending increases benefit some departments at the expense of others.

The government has bowed to pressures for higher taxes, predominantly to protect the old. Our privacy policy has been updated since the last time you logged in. We want to make sure you're kept up to date. Please take a moment to review these changes. You will not receive KPMG subscription messages until you agree to the new policy. Ignore and log out. Autumn Budget preview With only a few days until the Autumn Budget, read our latest predictions and where to find our most up to date commentary on and after Budget Day.

How to find our Budget commentary You can keep informed with all the latest news on our dedicated Budget site which will be regularly updated with insights and commentary, including our on-a-page summary of the key announcements. Tim Sarson. Profile Email. Under the current UK regime, companies are generally treated as UK resident for corporation tax purposes if they are incorporated in the UK subject to exceptions or the central management and control of the company is exercised in the UK, subject to being treated as non-UK resident by virtue of the tie-breaker test in a double tax agreement.

In relation to outward re-domiciliation, the Government is considering whether the exiting company will cease to be UK resident by virtue of the re-domiciliation assuming central management and control are exercised outside the UK or continue to be treated as UK resident unless and until it is treated as non-UK resident by virtue of any double tax agreement.

Unsurprisingly, the Government is also concerned about the possible opportunities for tax avoidance that a re-domiciliation may bring. The Government is clear in the Autumn Budget statement that such an obvious tax avoidance technique would not be permitted in any re-domiciliation regime. The Government is also asking for views on the possible implications of re-domiciliation in relation to the personal taxation of the shareholders of re-domiciling companies, as well as considering the VAT treatment of re-domiciliations generally.

During the consultation on the UK tax treatment of securitisations in the spring of , concerns were expressed regarding the uncertainty surrounding the application of the stamp duty loan capital exemption to securitisation companies.

Those concerns centred around both: i securities issued and raised by securitisation companies, particularly where the returns on those securities are related to the profits of a business or carry a right to an excessive rate of return or repayment; and ii the stamp duty and SDRT treatment of the transfers of pools of loan assets as part of securitisation arrangements.

The Government has responded to those concerns in the Autumn Budget. Provisions in Finance Bill will allow the Government to make regulations to provide that stamp duty or SDRT is not chargeable on transfers of securities issued or raised by a securitisation company or a qualifying transformer vehicle.

The Government has also stated its intention that those regulations will also provide that stamp duty or SDRT is not chargeable on transfers of securities to or by a securitisation company.

If those regulations are made, they should be helpful in facilitating a broad range of term-deal securitisation arrangements, warehousing companies, and ILS-transformer vehicles which fall within the scope of the relevant UK securitisation and ILS legislation. However, the reduction in the tax surcharge only partially offsets the proposed increases in the corporation tax rate from the current rate of 19 per cent.

Whilst this is a welcome move and should ensure that the UK remains competitive with other financial centres, the headline tax rates for banks will still increase from the current rate of 27 per cent. This rule will be repealed from 27 October The Government has announced its intention in the Autumn Budget to correct this anomaly and to repeal the more favourable rules for EEA-resident companies.

This change will apply for accounting periods ending 27 October In the wake of these developments, the Autumn Budget sets out the details of new countermeasures which will be sought by the Government in Finance Bill Such a freezing order would prevent any dissipation by the promoter of their assets, irrespective of whether an enforceable debt existed at the point that the freezing order is sought. The Levy was announced at Budget , and that announcement was followed by a public policy consultation and the publication of draft legislation.

The Levy will commence in the financial year running from 1 April to 31 March on medium, large and very large entities which are regulated for anti-money laundering purposes at any point during that year.

The Levy will be collected by among others HMRC, with unpaid levy debts and any related penalties being owed as a civil debt to the Crown. The rate of the Levy will depend on the relevant UK revenue of the relevant regulated entity, with threshold figures and Levy amounts to be finalised in Finance Bill He advises on the taxation aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border corporate and financing transactions.

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