Keith M Gordon MA(Oxon) FCA CTA(Fellow)
Keith is available:
- to appear in all Courts and Tribunals or
- to provide written opinions and to advise in a meeting ('in conference') or over the telephone.
For a summary of Keith's recent Court appearances, click here.
Other recent work includes:
- Income tax and NICs
- Applicability of the settlements legislation
- Considering relevance of IR35 legislation to proposed arrangement
- Advising on inappropriate use of benefits code by HMRC
- Ensuring unlawful discovery assessment is vacated
- Challenging HMRC assertion that PAYE must be operated by non-resident company
- Arguing status of workers as non-employees
- Advising on effect of share-scheme rules to proposed sale of shares by directors
- Advising on availability of loan interest relief following sale of business
- Status of payments from employee trusts
- Applicability of the transactions in securities provisions
- Capital gains tax (and corporation tax on corporate gains)
- Determining the timing of a disposal under a contract
- Advising on effectiveness of cross options
- Determining the allowable expenditure
- Advising on availability of main residence exemption
- Transfers between spouses
- Development of site in garden
- Corporation tax
- Advising on availability of substantial shareholding exemption
- Looking at application of substantial donors exemption
- Considering applicability of intangible fixed assets regime
- Applicability of the transactions in securities provisions
- Definition of distributions
- Inheritance tax
- Considering the availability of business property relief
- Dealing with transfers of value from close companies
- Value added tax
- Advising on triangulation (3-party contracts, intra-EU supplies)
- Advising on VAT treatment on proposed surrender of lease
- Dealing with interaction of Halifax and Lennartz principles
- Recoverability of VAT on legal expenses
Keith has also advised in matters relating to:
- alleged professional negligence
- partnership disputes involving accountants
- alleged negligence of staff provided by recruitment agencies
- claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
- employment law.