TC09497 - [2025] UKFTT 00460 (TC)
First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber)

TC09497 - [2025] UKFTT 00460 (TC)

Fecha: 08-Abr-2025

Case law – Best judgment

Case law – Best judgment

17.

In relation to the meaning of “best judgment”, in Van Boeckel v Customs and Excise Commissioners [1981] 211 ER, Woolf J stated:

“What the words ‘best of their judgment’ envisage, in my view, is that the Commissioners will fairly consider all material placed before them and, on that material, come to a decision which is reasonable and not arbitrary as to the amount of tax which is due. As long as there is some material on which the Commissioners can reasonably act then they are not required to carry out investigations which may or may not result in further material being placed before them.”