Summer Budget (1) The Main Residence Nil Rate Band

Yesterday, Sunday 3rd April, social media started buzzing with a breaking story that actually began over a year ago. An individual, not identified at the time of writing (although, surely, the [...]

Yes, it’s that time again.  The speech is due to be delivered to the House of Commons at approx 12.30 on Wednesday March 16th. As with previous budgets and autumn statements, you can get [...]

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 [...]