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This is an interesting one that is often overlooked. The tax legislation makes provision for staff or director remuneration to be paid up to nine…

Anyone at all familiar with the subject of Wills knows that for such a document to be valid then in broad terms: This basic drill,…

All a bit of a pain but the worst is yet to come… The EU’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive is now being implemented. Most of…

Here’s another interesting example about business property relief (BPR), a most valuable inheritance tax concession. It is based on a true story and underlines the…

Here’s a recent tax case that underlines some basic tax principles. It concerns a lady by the name of Ageela who lived at 132 Shaggy…

The following is an extract from a recent guidance note sent to accountants and tax agents giving some “flesh” to the bones of last week’s…

The Government has just published a report entitled “Building a Trusted Modern Tax Administration System” in which it sets out its roadmap for making tax…

Did you know… Chargeable lifetime transfers by individuals into most types of trust could potentially give rise to an IHT liability at the lifetime rate…

Successive UK governments have positively encouraged charitable giving in recent years by providing generous income tax and corporation tax relief to donors, donees and sometimes…

The Chancellor has gone public this week along with the Prime Minister in an effort to assure Conservative party colleagues that his over-riding concern is…