Bespoke - for private clients
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
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Business,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
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Our most popular posts of the past year reflect the tax-related interests and wealth management concerns of high earners and high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in the UK. Here they are in reverse order. The tax landscape is ever-changing, though, so speak to your tax adviser to find out the latest news on the topics covered.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
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Business,
Day in the life,
Green,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: business,
tax,
investment,
HNWIs,
HNWI,
pensions,
Grant Thornton,
Bespoke,
wealth,
magazine,
wealth management,
trusts,
Bespoke magazine,
insight,
subscribe,
publications,
interviews
The latest issue of Grant Thornton’s Bespoke magazine is out now and comes packed with lifestyle features, tax perspectives and wealth management issues, and other hot topics facing high earners and high net worth individuals in the UK. Here’s what you’ll find in our latest issue and how to join our mailing list.
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Friday, October 28, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
high earners,
minimise,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
income drawdown,
annuity,
capped drawdown,
flexible drawdown,
50% tax
A common reason clients give for not wishing to contribute to pensions are the restrictions on how and when they can access their pension benefits after retirement. From April this year there is a new option for such retirees. Flexible drawdown, as the name suggests, will give individuals much more freedom as to how they take their pension benefits.
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Friday, October 21, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
retirement,
Mike Hyland,
high earners,
minimise,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
lifetime tax relief,
lifetime allowance,
fixed protection,
50% tax
Our pension series continues with a look at the changes to the pension rules, which may cost you up to £165,000 if you don’t take action before 6 April 2012.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
IHT,
pensions,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
high earners,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
50% tax rate,
pensions carry forward,
annual allowance
After answering some of the most common pension questions in our post last week, we now consider the recent changes to the rules on pension contributions and how you could make best use of the new rules to provide for yourself and your family.
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Friday, October 07, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
high earners,
minimise,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
50% tax rate,
annuity
Welcome to our new blog series on pensions. As an introduction, we will answer some of the most commonly asked pension-related questions and look at why now is such a good time to consider pension planning.
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Monday, September 26, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
| Tags: HNWIs,
HNWI,
Bespoke,
wealth,
charity,
magazine,
Bespoke magazine,
hobbies,
David Chisnall,
Bell Longranger,
helicopters
After a career in engineering, David Chisnall OBE transformed his love of radio-controlled helicopters into a full-sized Bell Longranger, which he now uses for charity flights. Glyn Brown discovers a man with a passion for turning fuel into fun.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HNWIs,
property,
CGT,
income tax,
Dave Jennings,
income,
investigation,
tax evasion,
Tax Investigations,
social networks,
landlords,
undeclared,
buy to let,
undisclosed
Are taxpayers with undeclared income like needles in a haystack or are they sitting ducks for the taxman? As the Government looks with renewed vigour at tax avoidance and tax evasion in order to raise the tax take, many of you are asking: ‘How can HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) find out about my undisclosed income?’
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Thursday, July 07, 2011 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Business,
Day in the life,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
HNWIs,
HNWI,
Grant Thornton,
Bespoke,
wealth,
magazine,
Bespoke magazine,
insight,
subscribe,
comment,
publications,
interviews,
features,
private clients
Grant Thornton’s summer issue of Bespoke magazine for private clients is out now and features 28 pages of financial, lifestyle and wealth-related features for high earners and high net worth individuals (HNWIs). Here’s what’s inside – and how to get hold of a copy…
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Personal
| Tags: HNWIs,
HNWI,
Bespoke,
magazine,
Bespoke magazine,
hobbies,
Roger Weatherby,
South Pole,
trek,
challenge,
Antarctic,
Scott
Trekking to the South Pole is hard, but not quite hard enough for some. In the fourth of our
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