Gill’s Blog

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) were tasked by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 2018 to review a wide range of administrative and technical aspects of inheritance tax (IHT). The [...]

An organisation called Tax Justice Network was reported in the Guardian on 3 June 2019 as having published a report entitled “How Inheritance Tax breaks favour the well-off”. It comments on the [...]

As many of you know, I suffer from inflammatory bowel disease which means I must be careful what I eat. I am intolerant of gluten, dairy and eggs. This makes life interesting when I am travelling [...]

Hot off the press from HMRC - they clarify the correct income tax treatment in Estate Administration. There are three ways in which income tax may be accounted for during the administration [...]

Practitioners still mention to me they have not completed their 16 hours of CPD this year even though we left these rules behind for good in October 2016. I wonder just how many people are [...]

In the Tolley’s Bellweather Report solicitors believe 33% of their business on average is won purely on price rather than on the expertise of the firm. A telling 26% of those surveyed did not [...]

Step up to the plate the LawSkills Monthly Digest – a reasonably priced alternative between the two. Not too frequent to overlook reading it. Not complicated to read, requiring no search engine [...]

On 8 November 2018 I attended an interesting and yet disappointing forum on the future of legal education. All the expected speakers were there from the SRA, LSB, TLS, TBC, CiLEX and other [...]

All probate practitioners will remember the 2017 storm caused by the callous and unprincipled attempt by Government to hike up probate fees for bereaved clients through the statutory instrument [...]

The mist, or should I say fog, was definitely around one morning as I tried in vain to fly to Manchester airport to give a presentation in the city and I had to revert to good old fashioned train [...]