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UK FTT rejects Ramsay no-economic-substance argument; QCB premiums taxed as interest under ITTOIA s381; discovery and HICBC challenges fail; £10m assessment upheld (Lynch v HMRC)

Published on: 20 March 2025

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Lynch v HMRC [2025] UKFTT 300 (TC)

The appellant took part in a promoted tax avoidance arrangement spanning the 2010–11 to the 2013–14 tax years. The planning was disclosed pursuant to DOTAS. Participants made claims to deduct interest relief for borrowing to finance an investment in a partnership interest (sections 383, 398 of the Income Tax Act 2007 (ITA 2007)). It was ultimately accepted that this element of the planning was ineffective. The arrangements comprised a series of steps whereby a limited partnership bought and sold qualifying corporate bonds (QCBs). HMRC contended that, notwithstanding the failure of the arrangement as a whole, steps produced income chargeable as interest. HMRC opened enquiries and issued formal discovery assessments, comprising a charge to income tax on interest characterised as discount (sections 369, 371, 381, Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (ITTOIA 2005)), and extended to premiums per Lomax (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Peter Dixon & Son, Ltd 25 TC 353)...

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