The Court of Appeal and our Judicial Review : Update on Uber must pay all of its taxes

Earlier this week we heard that the Court of Appeal had refused us permission to appeal against the decision not to make a protective costs order.  This confirms us in our choice to switch strategy to a judicial review of HMRC's failure to raise a protective assessment against Uber. As matters stand, we have a hearing on 6 November to consider HMRC's application that key elements of its case not be made available to the public. Uber will be attending and arguing that HMRC should not be able to disclose anything about its affairs to us - despite the very clear language of section 18(2)(c) of the Commissioners of Revenue and Customs Act 2005.  We will say that this is a case about securing public confidence in the proper administration of the tax system cannot sensibly be heard out of public eye. Let the sun shine in, we say, and let the people know why, remarkably, HMRC appears to be allowing Uber to dodge hundreds of millions of pounds of tax every year. Although we were forced to pay Uber over £100,000 of costs (consuming almost the entirety of what we raised) we do not presently plan to ask for further funding to pay for the judicial review.  It is possible that that situation will need to change but we are keenly aware of the commitment we made to you, our funders, to try and chase down Uber's VAT dodging and we do not seek to escape or avoid that commitment, Jo Maugham QC