Tax: Justice and reason?

Katie Hawksley finds that Rogge v HMRCC summarises how the settlor-interested rules work in the UK and offshore ‘The judgment touched on the interaction between a settlor’s liability to income tax and that of the trustees (and the complications which can arise as a result), raising some interesting points for private client practitioners to bear …
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Rogge & ors v HMRCC [2012] UKFTT 49 (TC)

Wills & Trusts Law Reports | April 2012 #118

There were three joined appeals, namely that of R who had paid interest under a loan to the trustees of a trust of which he was the settlor and those of K and the trustees of a trust in which K, the settlor, was interested. K had paid rent to the trustees of a trust under which he was a settlor and of which he was the life tenant. All appealed income tax assessments on the basis that it is impossible for a taxpayer to be taxed on his own expense. Parliament could not have intended s660A(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 to have this effect. Section 660...