‘The Ministry of Justice has ruled out reviewing the 8% rate of interest it charges when legal aid has to be repaid – even though the Bank of England continues to hold UK interest rates at 0.5%.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 11th May 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Supreme Court, 17th February 2016
‘Catalogue company Shop Direct must pay corporation tax on a £125 million repayment of VAT overpaid by companies in the group that no longer trade, the Supreme Court has confirmed.’
OUT-LAW.com, 18th February 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘A claimant who receives less at stage 3 of the RTA protocol than was offered at stage 2 has to reimburse the difference, a circuit judge has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 21st January 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘Campaigner Martin Lewis has engaged lawyers to investigate whether the Government has acted illegally in asking students to repay more.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A landlord who rented out a storage basement as self-contained accommodation for £975 a month after it was declared substandard has been ordered to pay back £70,000 in rent under the Proceeds of Crime Act.’
The Guardian, 22nd October 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The University of Law promised to reimburse Legal Practice Course (LPC) graduates with 50 per cent of their fees if they fail to find employment within the “legal and commerce fields” after nine months of graduating.’
The Lawyer, 4th August 2015
Source: www.thelawyer.com
The Upper Tribunal has again found itself considering the issue of Rent Repayment Orders and has provided some further enlightenment on its position after the case of Parker v Waller.
NearlyLegal, 6th July 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘Where the taxpayer made a claim for repayment of VAT which had been paid owing to a mistake, all the consequences of the mistake were to be taken into account in assessing the quantum of his claim. The revenue was, therefore, entitled under section 81(3A) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 to take into account both credits and debits and to set off amounts of input tax it had wrongly paid to the taxpayer against the amount the taxpayer now claimed to be repaid in respect of output tax it wrongly paid to the revenue.’
WLR Daily, 22nd May 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Two women who were jailed after burying a man in a garden and claiming his benefits have been ordered to repay almost £90,000 under the Proceeds of Crime Act.’
BBC News, 28th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sections 78 and 80 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994 could not be construed in such a way as to conform with European Union law and therefore had to be disapplied so as to allow the claimant companies to pursue their claims to recover the full value of overpaid value added tax.’
WLR Daily, 28th March 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘An east London council is refunding up to £347,000 to drivers after parking tickets were illegally issued by a dozen cameras.’
BBC News, 8th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Maria Miller must pay back £5,800 worth of expenses and apologise for her behaviour in a personal statement in the House of Commons, says report.’
Daily Telegraph, 3rd April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Troubled security firm G4S has agreed to repay £108.9m plus tax to the UK government after overcharging on contracts to tag offenders.’
BBC News, 12th March 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Reed Employment Ltd v Revenue and Customs Comrs [2014] EWCA Civ 32; [2014] WLR (D) 23
‘Section 80(3) of the Value Added Tax Act 1994, as inserted, which gave the revenue a possible defence of unjust enrichment for claims made after 26 May 2005 for the recovery of overpaid VAT, without regard to the period in respect of which the claim was made, was not unlawful.’
WLR Daily, 23rd Janaury 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Ltd v Higgins Construction Ltd [2013] EWCA Civ 1541; [2013] WLR (D) 463
‘On a true construction of an implied term in a construction contract a party was entitled, following an adjudication in which it had been the loser, but where it maintained that it had made an over-payment, to bring proceedings for repayment; and the applicable limitation period ran from the date of the over-payment.’
WLR Daily, 29th November 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Parliamentary standards watchdog finds Tory MP’s claims for trips between London and her constituency ‘wrongfully made.’ ”
The Guardian, 24th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A convicted fraudster has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail after failing to repay £14m in taxes.”
BBC News, 2nd March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“We bring you two interesting reports from the world of Rent Repayment Orders. Briefly, these stem from a power under s73 and 74 of the Housing Act 2004. These sections allow a Residential Property Tribunal to award a tenant or local authority the return of rent or housing benefits where the landlord has been operating an unlicensed HMO.”
NearlyLegal, 28th November 2012
Sourc: www.nearlylegal.co.uk/blog/
“New figures show the level of fraud convictions have risen by more than 40 per cent amid a new crackdown on benefit cheats.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th October 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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