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Stamp duty in the Autumn Statement 2023: update on the 1.5% charge and extension of the growth market exemption The Budget Resolutions published following the Autumn Statement 2023 give temporary statutory effect to provisions intended to remove the UK’s 1.5% stamp duty charge in many circumstances where it would have previously been disapplied under EU law and to ... UK government publishes responses to consultation on the Computer Misuse Act 1990 Cyber continues to be a key threat for both organisations and governments. The UK government has been considering for some time whether to update its cyber laws, and recently published the results of a consultation initiated in February 2023, which sought... R&D Tax in the Autumn Statement 2023: A tale of two regimes For those, like me, who have been following the ever-changing research and development (R&D) tax relief landscape in the UK over the past few years, it will have come as no surprise that the Chancellor, in his Autumn Statement 2023, delivered the final ve... Autumn Statement 2023: ORIP out - UTPR in As trailed on X (previously Twitter), the Chancellor delivered the Autumn Statement on 22 November 2023 with “110 different measures to grow the British economy”. I admit that I have not counted the measures to verify this, but the list of tax measures al... UK signs joint statement against ransomware payments – “New norm” or status quo? On 2 November 2023, the UK government announced that it and more than 40 countries had signed a Joint Statement strongly discouraging the payment of ransomware demands and pledging that central government funds should not be used to pay ransoms to cyber c... OpenAI offers to indemnify ChatGPT customers for copyright infringement OpenAI has announced that it will protect its business customers against copyright infringement lawsuits, following the lead of Microsoft, Google and Amazon, who already offer customers such protection in relation to their generative AI products.  The off... Love, not money, is the basis for all happiness in life … and for tax residence in Italy On 16 October 2023 the Italian Government preliminarily approved a legislative decree to implement a reform regarding international taxation (Draft Decree). The proposal is yet to be approved by parliament. One key change is to the way tax residence is de... Are you an AIF? Are you comparable to a Spanish AIF? If yes, you could be entitled to a limited 1% tax on your Spanish source income The 1% income tax treatment, instead of the standard 19% tax, is available to non-Spanish tax resident alternative investment funds (AIFs). Or so the Spanish Supreme Court says, if you meet certain comparability criteria. Note: The Spanish tax statute of ... What can we learn from the UK’s AI Summit? The UK held the world’s first AI safety summit last week at Bletchley Park – a location famous for codebreaking (it was where Alan Turing’s team famously broke the Enigma code in World War II) and which is often linked to the birth of modern computing.  T... UK scraps the bonus cap - competitive divergence or prudent policymaking? On 24 October 2023, the PRA and the FCA issued a joint policy statement (PS) announcing that the bonus cap would be scrapped from 31 October 2023. The move follows a joint consultation paper (CP) published in December 2022, which itself gave effect to a c...