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24 Nov 2020 Changes to the UK Trust Register

New Regulations to change the UK trust register came into force on 6 October.

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24 Nov 2020 CGT Review

In July, the Chancellor commissioned the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) to carry out a review of Capital Gains Tax.

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24 Nov 2020 Wealth Tax Evidence Papers

A group calling themselves the ‘Wealth Tax Commission’ have published a series of evidence papers…

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22 Sep 2020 New inheritance tax disclosure regime

Inheritance tax planning just got a whole lot more complicated.

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27 Jul 2020 Making a Will during the Covid-19 pandemic

Advances in technology have been invaluable during the lockdown brought about by coronavirus but, until recently, making a Will could not be done digitally.

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06 Jul 2020 GDPR: Trustees & PRs

‘GDPR’ is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which has been in force in the UK for just over two years.

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06 Jul 2020 Excluded property trusts

Changes to EPTs will shortly be enacted in Finance Bill 2020.

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06 Jul 2020 Henkes v HMRC [2020] UKFTT 159 (TC) – a recent domicile case

A recent First-tier Tribunal (FTT) examined the extent and time at which a tribunal can make a binding decision.

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06 Jul 2020 TRS updating facility

As previously reported the trust registration service (TRS) is due to change, but there is still no news on how or when.

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07 Feb 2018 IHT Review

The second report of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS)’s review of inheritance tax (IHT) was finally published last week.

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