{"id":19565,"date":"2025-07-29T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-over-tax-on-rival-apps\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:37:31","slug":"uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-over-tax-on-rival-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-over-tax-on-rival-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber loses UK supreme court appeal over tax on rival apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rival taxi operators will not face a 20% tax charge on their profit margins outside London<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/jul\/29\/us-china-trade-donald-trump-world-tariff-federal-reserve-bank-of-england-euro-dollar-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uber\u2019s rival taxi operators will not have to pay 20% VAT on their profits outside London after the UK supreme court ruled that private-hire operators do not enter into a contract with passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Uber had brought the case after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/19\/uber-drivers-workers-uk-supreme-court-rules-rights\">2021 decision by the supreme court<\/a> that its drivers were workers, which had an impact on Uber\u2019s tax and other obligations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/29\/uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-tax-taxi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a6dcabd6161778b67c1d58a5f179e5a5c9403371\/622_0_3542_2833\/master\/3542.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e6d7613e022485c5ceac39d195e2e39a\" title=\"Uber loses UK supreme court appeal over tax on rival apps\" \/>Rival taxi operators will not face a 20% tax charge on their profit margins outside London<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nUber\u2019s rival taxi operators will not have to pay 20% VAT on their profits outside London after the UK supreme court ruled that private-hire operators do not enter into a contract with passengers.<br \/>\nUber had brought the case after a 2021 decision by the supreme court that its drivers were workers, which had an impact on Uber\u2019s tax and other obligations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rival taxi operators will not face a 20% tax charge on their profit margins outside London Business live \u2013 latest updates Uber\u2019s rival taxi operators will not have to pay 20% VAT on their profits outside London after the UK supreme court ruled that private-hire operators do not enter into a contract with passengers. Uber &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/uber-loses-uk-supreme-court-appeal-over-tax-on-rival-apps\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber loses UK supreme court appeal over tax on rival apps<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}