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Offshore investment wrappers and offshore trusts offer savings as tax loopholes close

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, offshore, inheritance tax, IHT, tax havens, tax avoidance, domicile, Naomi Smith, tax haven, non-dom, tax evasion, discretionary trusts, tax saving, IHT planning, offshore trusts, investment income, offshore investment wrappers

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As HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) steps up its mission to prevent British taxpayers illegally evading tax by holding their investments offshore and ‘forgetting’ to report them on their tax returns, we look at two legitimate opportunities to save tax through offshore set-ups: offshore investment wrappers and offshore trusts.

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What are the tax implications of bringing funds into the UK from abroad?

Tuesday, November 01, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, offshore, income, domicile, Naomi Smith, residence, non-dom, residency, overseas, non-domicile, UK, offshore funds, non-residency, remittance basis, foreign income, ordinarily resident, tax liabilities, resident

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There are currently a quarter of a million online discussions asking questions about how you will be taxed if you bring money from abroad or transfer foreign income into the UK. The multitude of answers are enough to tax anyone’s brain, but the foremost deciding factor is domicile. Here,we look at the situation for both UK-domiciled and non-domiciled individuals.

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Changes to non-dom taxation

Friday, June 17, 2011 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, HMRC, offshore, Sue Knight, consultation, domicile, non-dom, UK residency, non-domicile, non-UK domicile, remittance, remittance basis, remittance basis charge, UK resident

This could be considered a familiar headline, but once again today, a consultation has been issued by the Government outlining proposed changes to the taxation of non-UK domiciled individuals.

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Singalonga taxman as HNWIs targeted to boost tax take

Thursday, April 21, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, Dave Jennings, HNWI, Protect Your Wealth, investigation, amnesty, domicile, offshore assets, evasion, HNWI unit, High Net Worth Unit, PTSP, avoidance, Plumbers Tax Safe Plan

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Ready to rock ‘n’ roll with HM Revenue & Customs’ punches? Dave Jennings, our tax investigations expert, tells the tale of how wealthier taxpayers are being targeted.

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Seven predictions for where the emergency Budget will hit your wealth

Friday, June 11, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories: Business, Protecting your wealth | Tags: HNWIs, property, capital gains tax, CGT, IHT, pensions, NIC, budget, tax avoidance, planning, domicile, private residence relief, PPR, residence, NICs, National Insurance Contributions

How are your revenues, assets and tax planning likely to be affected in Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget on 22 June? We look at seven areas that will affect high net worth individuals…

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Tax truths behind the Dragons’ Den domicile row

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, entrepreneurs, tax planning, investment, offshore, Sue Knight, IHT, James Caan, domicile, non-dom, Cayman Islands, non-domicile, Inheritance Tax, Duncan Bannatyne, Pakistan, earnings, Dragons’ Den

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Thinking of leaving the UK? Be sure to sever all ties

Thursday, April 08, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, HMRC, Sue Knight, tax havens, domicile, HMRC6, residence, Gaines-Cooper, residency, IR20, UK residents, non-residency, status

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An intolerable uncertainty now exists for UK non-residents following the outcome of the Judicial Review hearings of Davies, James and Gaines-Cooper – as I outlined last month in

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UK residency status all at sea as HMRC targets tax exiles

Thursday, March 04, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, HMRC, HNWIs, Sue Knight, tax havens, domicile, residence, Gaines-Cooper, residency, IR20, UK residents, status, Finance Bill 2008

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New Irish domicile ‘wealth tax’ puts HNWIs in line of fire

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, HMRC, HNWIs, Richard Jameson, corporation tax, domicile, Gaines-Cooper, high net worth individuals, Ireland, residency, IR20, Irish domicile levy, 2010 Finance Bill

Ireland has been held up as a country with a progressive and attractive tax regime, so the proposal for a domicile levy has taken Irish high net worth individuals (HNWIs) aback. On the other side of the Irish Sea, the recent findings in the Messrs Davies and James and Mr Gaines-Cooper case regarding

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