The outcome of a recent Tax Tribunal will delight main contractors in the student accommodation sector.  The decision states that zero-rated dwellings are capable of being constructed even where planning consent restricts occupation to students of universities.

Our Tax Director, James Greenhalgh, talks about the importance for property owners to identify how to claim the relevant Capital Allowances available to them.

An Upper Tier Tax Tribunal VAT case in November 2018 has left a construction business with a £221k bill for underpaid VAT and has highlighted the consequences of incorrectly zero-rating construction services.

We are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the 2019 North West Construction Awards.

The option to tax allows a business to charge VAT on the sale or rental of commercial property, or in other words, to make a taxable supply from what otherwise would be a VAT exempt supply.