Commercial update - Max Schofield: Claiming VAT input tax on legal services benefitting a taxpayer company and its director
21st March 2019
If legal services are provided to a taxpayer company and to its director, can the company reclaim the input tax? Max Schofield analyses the Court of Appeal decision in Praesto Consulting UK Limited v. HMRC [2019] EWCA Civ 353.
Max is a Commercial Law barrister whose practice has a particular emphasis on indirect taxation.
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