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How does the purpose of your borrowing impact tax deductibility?
Join Tanja Velling, co-host of our Tax News podcast and Tax Partners, Dominic Robertson and Charles Osborne, as they discuss the unallowable purpose rule, one of the UK's restrictions on companies deducting interest when calculating profits subject to corporation tax.
This episode dives into:
How this rule disallows interest deductions where a company’s borrowing is for a main tax avoidance purpose; and
recent Court of Appeal decisions on what constitutes a main tax avoidance purpose and what this means for taxpayers, particularly in an M&A context.
The skinny
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