Tax and Financial Planning

• Planning to Participate in a Tax Avoidance Scheme? Read This First!

  • Posted21 December 2017

  Anyone tempted to participate in a tax avoidance scheme would be wise to take note of one case in which a businessman complained in vain that he had been subject...

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• HMRC Fail in IHT Challenge on Livery

  • Posted7 December 2017

  HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have challenged a number of property-based trading businesses, seeking to deprive them of the Inheritance Tax (IHT) and Capital Gains Tax advantages that are normally...

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• Mis-Sold an Interest Rate Hedging Product? Don’t Miss the Time Limit for a Claim

  • Posted20 November 2017

  Mis-selling of interest rate hedging products (IRHPs) by lenders has caused acute financial pain to a great many businesses and individuals and, as one High Court case shows, you should...

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• HMRC Aren’t Always Right

  • Posted9 November 2017

  According to the Government’s GOV.UK website, if you are a company director, you have to file a tax return every year. It says that every UK company director must send...

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• Tax Domicile – HMRC Upping the Ante?

  • Posted16 October 2017

  With an increasingly peripatetic workforce, more and more people are finding that the issue of their fiscal residence has a significant effect on their tax position. The response to...

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• Only Gifts Without Reservation Are Effective in Minimising IHT

  • Posted10 October 2017

  Giving away your assets to the next generation before your death can be an effective means of minimising Inheritance Tax (IHT) liabilities. However, as one tribunal case showed, such gifts...

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