Capital Gains Tax For Collectors

In principle, it’s simple. If you have business assets which are part of your estate when you die, or which are held on trust where periodic Inheritance Tax (“IHT”) charges [...]

As reported in the press today, the government has accepted that the legislation implementing the probate fee increase cannot go through before the election announced for June 8th. Let’s [...]

Many people will be aware of some long-running litigation that has recently reached its final conclusion with a ruling by the Supreme Court.  The case started life (as Ilott v Mitson) after the [...]

Readers of our article in February 2016 “Will The Cost of Dying Go Through the Roof?” will probably know, by now, that the short answer is “yes”.  The government’s [...]

Since investment in classic cars featured in the Financial Times’ rather good recent article on “15 Ways to Reduce Your Tax Bill” and interest in alternative assets such as fine wine seems to be [...]

A number of clients asked for links to the SDLT Calculator. HMRC has its own, very good calculator and we don’t want to put too many documents on this site that are likely to need regular [...]

It is fairly standard, these days, for a couple with children to put in place “mirror wills” whereby each parent leaves their entire estate to the other, if they are the first to die, [...]

…is due on 23rd November, apparently. We will, of course, comment on anything of significance to our clients on the day.