Who’s Scottish Now?

Probably. Whether you die with or without a Will, in order to administer your estate in the UK your executors or other personal representatives need to apply for a Grant of Representation (what [...]

I planned to write a blog about all the interesting tax-related announcements in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement but, frankly, if you ignore all the forecasts (and, let’s face it, [...]

And finally, in our short series of blogs looking at the Summer Budget changes after a bit of thought, we come to the change announced for residential property owned by Non-doms.   To recap [...]

Continuing our comments on the summer budget, we now look at the proposals for “Non-doms” generally (the proposals for dealing with UK residential property of Non-doms are worth a [...]

As promised, this is the first in a series of short articles explaining the summer budget changes announced in July 2015.  Today we will explain (and it needs a bit of explanation) the Main [...]

The Chancellor presents his summer “emergency budget” tomorrow, 8th July. We will be following his speech as he gives it (provided the Ashes test match from Cardiff  is not too [...]

As from April 2016, there will be a new Scottish Income Tax, meaning that the overall rate of tax on the non-investment income of Scottish residents is likely to be higher than on that of other [...]

Private client tax is a geeky pursuit, and it is probably only a practitioner who, after watching the excellent recent film “The Woman in Gold” would ask at the end “was there a big tax [...]