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This article focuses on the UK inheritance tax (IHT) transferable nil rate band (TNRB).  The author does not seek to address issues relating to the residence nil rate band, or the residence [...]

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 [...]

For those administering estates over the last 20, or so, years, it no longer comes as a surprise to be contacted by, say, the registrars for Lloyds Group or the Royal Bank of Scotland, and to be [...]

The deadline for submissions to the Office for Tax Simplification is Friday 8 June 2018 at 11.45pm and Peter Nellist, along with many others, has submitted his feedback on the proposals for a [...]

All tax advisers are prepared for the concept of ‘hope value’ and the need to put tax protection in place. This ‘hope value’ is the difference between agricultural value (AV) as defined by [...]

The deceased, Mrs Ross, owned two-thirds of a business which ran and managed eight holiday cottages and two staff flats. HMRC determined that the business did not qualify for business property [...]

Whenever an adviser meets a new client there are three matters that should always be on the agenda: does the client have in place an up to date will, a Lasting Power of Attorney and, for [...]

It will be of comfort to practitioners to know that although the executors didn’t disclose a substantial gift by a father to his son in the IHT return, the penalty was charged on the son [...]

The First Tier Tax Tribunal (“The Tribunal”) has held that a furnished holiday letting business involved mainly the making and holding of investments so that it did not qualify for Business [...]

The FTT had to consider whether two sets of paintings, which were gifted by Olive and her late husband Professor James Scott (‘James’) and by Dr Janet Steel (‘Janet’) to James and Olive’s two [...]