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UKUT: LLP ‘capital interests’ were income; s850C mixed member rules applied with annual reallocation; LLP carelessness validated extended discovery assessments (Holden v HMRC; HMRC v BCG LLP)

Published on: 26 January 2026

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Holden v HMRC; and HMRC v The Boston Consulting Group UK LLP and Others [2026] UKUT 25 (TCC)

The appeals related to arrangements introduced by The Boston Consulting Group from 2011, under which senior individuals (managing directors and partners, or MDPs) received so‑called ‘capital interests’ in The Boston Consulting Group UK LLP (the LLP). On retirement and other specified trigger events, those interests had to be transferred to the corporate member, BCG Ltd, for consideration determined by the uplift in the value of shares in the US parent, BCG Inc. The LLP and the MDPs reported the sums arising as chargeable gains and claimed entrepreneurs’ relief. The FTT concluded that the capital interests did not amount to interests in the LLP’s capital and that the amounts paid were properly characterised as income...

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