Wedlake Bell Insights

    • In Trust
    • Nov 11, 2024

    In Trust – Ask the expert

    I am a farmer owning an agricultural estate worth several million. How will the inheritance tax changes announced in the Autumn Budget affect me and can I do anything to minimise the extra tax my estate may need to pay?

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    • In Trust
    • Nov 11, 2024

    In Trust – Welcome from the editor

    The Autumn Budget on 30 October 2024 (“the Autumn Budget“) introduced a myriad of tax changes designed to address economic inequality, reduce the so-called “black hole” in the national finances and fund public services, while also influencing the financial landscape

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    • Globally Speaking
    • Oct 31, 2024

    Globally Speaking: Stop press the Autumn Budget 2024

    In this “stop press” edition of our Globally Speaking e-bulletin, we provide our initial thoughts on the most highly anticipated Budget in the UK for a generation; the first by a Labour government in fourteen years and more significantly the

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    • In Trust
    • Oct 31, 2024

    Autumn Budget 2024: Fixing the foundations to deliver change?

    This was the headline for Rachel Reeves’s first Budget. She spoke for one and half hours in a wide ranging speech which contained many of the changes announced during the last few weeks but also some surprises.  We set out

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    • Succession: Family Offices
    • Sep 30, 2024

    What does it mean to be a responsible steward of wealth?

    Wealth holders have always been stewards of their own wealth; increasingly that stewardship requires wealth holders to act responsibly. But what does being a responsible wealth steward mean, and who is this responsibility to, and why does it matter? The

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    • Insights
    • Aug 9, 2024

    Private Client Legal Update – August 2024

    Some key highlights of legal updates affecting the Private Client industry over the past month are as follows. Tax policy – Autumn Budget On 29 July, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a fiscal update to Parliament in which she announced that

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    • Globally Speaking
    • Aug 5, 2024

    Government clarifies non-dom policy: What do we know now?

    Please note that this article was published before the non-dom legislation was finalised and brought into force on 6 April 2025. In this “stop press” edition of our Globally Speaking e-bulletin, we provide an update on how the publication of

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    • In Trust
    • Jun 25, 2024

    2024 General Election: All change?

    As we fast approach the date of the General Election and the possibility of new Downing Street residents, we attempt to cut through the political rhetoric and focus on those areas that may be of most concern to our clients

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    • In Trust
    • Jun 25, 2024

    For Better, For Worse: A Cautionary Tale After Langley v Qin

    According to the Law Commission, a predatory marriage is one where a person marries someone, often someone who is elderly or who lacks the mental capacity to marry, as a form of financial abuse. They might, for example, marry an

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