News & Insights

From 6 April, there is a new deadline for paying capital gains tax.

The Business Secretary Alok Sharma has proposed a relaxation to the current insolvency rules.

Following the government’s recently announced Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, further (and much needed) guidance has been published.

This note sets out how the Coronavirus Act 2020 (“the Act”) affects both business and residential tenancies.

The UK Government has recently published official and detailed advice…

The introduction of the new Electronic Communications Code in December 2017 was a long overdue update to legislation.

As the outbreak of COVID-19 has intensified, the UK art market, an inherently international industry, which thrives on both its domestic and global events, has felt the unprecedented effects.

We have been working with a whole range of businesses to help them address the many commercial issues thrown up by coronavirus.

It has been confirmed that heritage properties usually open to the public in order to secure conditional exemption from inheritance tax should not view closure due to the coronavirus guidance as a breach of undertaking.

The Coronavirus Act 2020 (“the Act”) was enacted yesterday (25 March 2020)…

The rules which brought indirect holdings of UK homes of foreign domiciliaries into the inheritance tax net from April 2017 also catch overseas loans made by such individuals to finance UK residential property interests as well as assets.

Before the first incarnation of the UK’s Trust Register has fully bedded in, the government now has to implement changes required by the EU’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD).

In terms of public spending, the Budget has been completely overtaken by events arising from the Coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting everyone’s ability to move freely around the globe including to and from the UK.

On 20 March 2020, the UK government announced an unprecedented wage guarantee scheme in response to the Coronavirus pandemic.