Majestic Global FZ-LLC v The Commissioners for HMRC
Decision date: 4 September 2025
Neutral citation: [2025] UKFTT 1061 (TC)
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Short overview
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Majestic challenged HMRC decisions that imposed conditions on CMBC's warehouse, beer registration and AWRS approvals which prevented supplies to Majestic. The First-tier Tribunal held those decisions were made in relation to CMBC's approvals and not in relation to or imposed on Majestic, and therefore Majestic lacked standing under s 16(2A)(b) and (c) FA. The tribunal struck out Majestic's appeals for want of jurisdiction.
Ratio decidendi
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The tribunal treated the statutory gateways in s 16(2A)(b) and (c) as limited to persons in relation to whom a decision is made or on whom conditions are imposed or applied (i.e. the approval/registration holder), and held those provisions do not extend to third parties who are only consequentially affected by conditions imposed on another.
Obiter dicta
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The tribunal noted Parliament’s different wording in s 16(2A)(a) compared with (b) and (c) as supporting a narrower standing gateway, and observed practical consequences for third parties under warehousing regimes—points the tribunal treated as contextual or policy observations rather than altering the statutory construction.