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Wednesday, November 23, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
property,
capital gains tax,
inheritance tax,
CGT,
income tax,
IHT,
trusts,
inheritance,
Mike Hyland,
minimise,
Family Limited Partnerships,
family wealth,
succession,
family investment company,
10-year charge,
relevant property,
wealth planning
After the changes to the taxation of trusts in recent years, we consider whether they are still a viable option for family wealth and succession planning, and introduce a couple of alternatives to trusts.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Business,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
property,
income tax,
Dave Jennings,
tax haven,
overseas,
offshore assets,
income from property,
evasion,
holiday homes,
commercial property,
avoidance,
Tax Investigations,
foreign property ownership,
foreign assets,
afluent teams,
homeowners
Holiday homes and offshore assets won’t be a personal tax haven for long as HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) continues to crack down on those not paying the correct tax with a new initiative looking into those who own property abroad.
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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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Tuesday, August 09, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: business,
tax,
property,
inheritance tax,
IHT,
relief,
liability,
Naomi Smith,
estate planning,
value,
APR,
farming,
IHT planning,
agriculture,
exemption,
farms,
agricultural property relief,
leasing
Agricultural property relief doesn’t always offer farmers and farmhouse owners an exemption from inheritance tax (IHT). Here, for example, are two scenarios that may trigger a crippling final IHT bill for the unsuspecting. Read on to make sure you don’t have to sell the family farm…
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Friday, August 05, 2011 | Posted by: Stuart Maggs
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
property,
compliance,
liability,
inheritance,
Stuart Maggs,
rental,
real estate,
foreign property ownership,
foreign assets,
France,
forced heirship,
holiday home,
SCI,
tax structures,
French,
wealth tax
If an Englishman’s home is his castle, then his holiday home may well be a chateau in France. But a recent U-turn on taxing foreign property owners, strict inheritance rules and the challenge of complying with both French and UK tax laws can taint the dream. What are the issues and what can you do to minimise them?
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: business,
tax,
property,
inheritance tax,
IHT,
relief,
liability,
Naomi Smith,
estate planning,
BPR,
Business Property Relief,
commercial property,
IHT planning,
exemtpion
The lesser-known pitfalls surrounding business property relief may leave your business at risk of a very large and unexpected inheritance tax bill. Let the horror stories of Mr Wealthy and Ms Success be a lesson to those who think they are exempt from death and taxes…
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011 | Posted by: Stuart Maggs
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
property,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
income tax,
PPR,
residence,
Stuart Maggs,
income from property,
property trading,
sale,
development,
reliefs,
plot,
planning permission,
second property,
let,
house,
building in your garden,
land,
garden
From time to time an Englishman stands and stares at his back garden and thinks, “You know, I think there’s room to fit another house in there.” The question of how to develop your property while minimising the potential tax liability then arises – and it’s a regular one for tax advisers.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
property,
capital gains tax,
inheritance tax,
CGT,
IHT,
divorce,
transfer,
marriage,
partnership,
Naomi Smith,
shares,
exemptions,
spouse,
transferable allowances,
marriage and tax,
civil partner
It may sound harsh but if you’re going to leave your marriage then it’s best to split on 6 April for optimum tax savings and to give you more time to sort out the financial arrangements. Naomi Smith, Tax Manager at Grant Thornton, follows up her post on a dozen tax reasons to get married with some tax-saving facts for those planning a separation.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
property,
capital gains tax,
inheritance tax,
CGT,
income tax,
IHT,
pensions,
retirement,
transfer,
marriage,
partnership,
Naomi Smith,
shares,
assets,
personal allowance,
spouse,
transferable allowances,
advantages,
Married Couple’s Allowance
Marriage isn’t just for romantics. There are all sorts of financial gains, tax reliefs, benefits, exemptions and other advantages to be had when you sign on the dotted line.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Personal
| Tags: links,
property,
divorce,
yachts,
marriage,
inheritance,
pre-nuptials,
estate planning,
pre-nups,
Forbes,
wills,
rich list,
collecting,
estate management,
links, wills, estate planning, pre-nups, property, inheritance, yachts, marriage, divorce, books, collecting, Forbes, rich list,
books
Our regular pick of the web as it relates to high earners and HNWIs comes with an added flavour of weddings and family this month, including the world’s most expensive wedding, royal pre-nup advice and inheritance issues with son- and daughter-in-laws.
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