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Financial institutions, are you ready! Preparing for stablecoins Some traditional financial institutions (tradfi) are developing digital assets strategies, while others have been waiting to see how use cases for these assets emerge. That is now changing fast. The US GENIUS Act, enacted in July 2025, will underpin incre... Copyright infringement risks in training Generative AI The launch of ChatGPT in 2022 sparked a surge in both the popularity of, and investment in, generative AI technologies.  Fast forward three years and, as the technology has advanced, so too has the sophistication of the debate surrounding its use and deve... Ticketmaster changes pricing practices following CMA investigation On 25 September 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that Ticketmaster has agreed to legally binding undertakings designed to improve transparency in its ticket sales processes. The undertakings stem from the CMA’s investigation int... Civil and criminal investigations by HMRC: Drawing the line So far, our blog post series on tax disputes in the UK has focussed generally on enquiries and appeals processes. Here, we focus on HMRC's civil and criminal processes for the investigation of the most serious forms of tax non-compliance, including fraud.... French Digital Services Tax: a French Tribunal rules in favor of the taxpayer on the concept of economically independent services from the taxable digital service The Administrative Tribunal of Cergy-Pontoise issued the first decision on the merits concerning the application of the French Digital Services Tax (DST) on 23 September 2025. This decision, favourable to the taxpayer, gives an example of what it means fo... Appealing a UK tax case beyond the First-tier Tribunal: five points to consider With HMRC statistics showing that HMRC was successful (at least in part) in 93% of First-tier Tribunal (FTT) tax cases in 2024/25, many taxpayers will have found themselves wondering what to do following receipt of an unfavourable FTT decision. But the FT... Cyber supply chain risk but not as we know it…. The recent cyber attack at JLR not only demonstrates the debilitating nature of a severe cyber attack, but highlights the devastating impact this can have on an organisation’s supply chain.  We tend to think of the supply chain as being an in-bound risk a... CMA clarifies expectations on consumer reviews, but uncertainties remain Since the key consumer protection aspects of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) came into force in April, there has been a lot of focus on the new prohibitions relating to fake consumer reviews. With a recent report indicat... What happens when you take a UK tax dispute to the First-tier Tribunal? The First-tier Tribunal (FTT) is the first stage of the court process for appealing, for instance, a corporation tax assessment. The previous post in our series on tax disputes in the UK considered the first steps in challenging an HMRC assessment. Here, ... First steps in challenging a tax assessment in the UK Previous posts in our series on tax disputes in the UK considered how an HMRC enquiry is likely to proceed and be concluded. In this and the next two posts, we will look at what happens next, focussing on corporation tax appeals, as opposed to indirect ta...