The Commissioners for HMRC v Moir Management Services Limited
Decision date: 10 November 2025
Neutral citation: [2025] UKFTT 1333 (TC)
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Short overview
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This case concerned HMRC's penalties against Moir Management Services Ltd for failing to notify "notifiable arrangements" and for failing to respond to a pre-disclosure enquiry relating to a Jarvis International Annuity umbrella payment model. The FTT found Moir was a promoter of notifiable arrangements, breached FA 2004 ss.308 and 313A, had no reasonable excuse, and imposed total penalties of £1,596,800. The decision applied Regulations 8, 10 and 18 and sets out the factual and statutory basis for promoter status and penalty calculation.
Ratio decidendi
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The Tribunal treated arrangements that split payments into a small taxed salary and a larger payment characterised as an "annuity" as capable of being prescribed notifiable arrangements where a tax advantage is a main benefit and a premium fee (a percentage of gross fees attributable to that advantage) is present; and it held that a "promoter" includes a person responsible for organising/management or making such arrangements available for implementation where the services relate to taxation (FA 2004 ss.306–307 applied with Regs 8,10,18).
Obiter dicta
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The judgment observed that striking out a Statement of Case in the FTT is a narrower restriction than a barring order and does not necessarily preclude a respondent from participating or relying on other documents. It also suggested that percentage-based deductions from gross fees that correlate with expected tax savings may be treated as economically equivalent to a premium fee.