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This text is aimed at tax practitioners, many of whom will not be lawyers. Over 300 pages of the book contains extracts from legislation. There is an assumption of general tax knowledge relating [...]

Understandably, the focus of British owners of Spanish properties has shifted sharply away from Brexit anxiety, to concern about the consequences of the current coronavirus lockdown. The Spanish [...]

With the Entrepreneurs’ Relief (ER) lifetime limit for Capital Gains Tax (CGT) having reduced from £10 million to £1 million in the Budget, it is considered that Rollover Relief will become more [...]

FRS 102 is the Financial Reporting Standard that applies to the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It has been a major overhaul of accounts disclosures replacing UK GAAP (General Accepted Accounting [...]

Many farming families who trade in partnerships do not always agree on tax and legal treatment of various areas surrounding the farming partnership. There have been a number of disputes reaching [...]

British owners of Spanish properties await the Brexit conclusion, to know whether or not the Spanish Succession Tax (SST) reductions which are currently enjoyed by European citizens, are to be [...]

Many farmers and equine businesses own private horses and it is often a matter of debate as to how the private use is treated in the Accounts and tax computation. As always there are tax planning [...]

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 [...]

It is imperative to look at all inheritance tax planning for the UK farming industry, especially with the introduction of the Agriculture Bill and increasingly elderly farmers. Emphasis must be [...]

We thought that the issue of the application of the French prélèvements sociaux on investment income and capital gains was over. However, both recent French case law and French legislation have [...]