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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More about Autumn Budget 2024: Fixing the foundations to deliver change?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
More about Globally Speaking: Stop press the Autumn Budget 2024Part 2 of our Employment Podcast celebrating World Mental Health Day is here! Listen to Employment Partner Stephen Ravenscroft and Senior Partner Camilla Wallace continue their conversation about mental health challenges in the workplace. How are employers raising awareness of
More about Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace (part 2)The Employment Rights Bill has now been laid down in parliament. It includes 28 new measures aimed at protecting workers rights and the Government has said it is “the biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation”. The most
More about The Employment Rights Bill – Major updatesTo mark World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10 October 2024 with the theme ‘It is Time to Prioritise Mental Health in the Workplace’, the next edition of the Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast discusses how organisations can raise awareness of
More about Wedlake Bell Employment Podcast – It is time to prioritise mental health in the workplace (part 1)The judgment of the Court of Appeal in Dos Santos v Unitel SA [2024] EWCA Civ 1109 contains, among other things, important new guidance on the test to be applied on the hearing of an application for a freezing injunction.
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