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Wills and Probate Monthly Update – December 2022
A round-up of legal updates for the Wills and probate industry over the past month is as follows. Tax policy – Autumn Statement and Finance Bill The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt… Read more →
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Wills and Probate Monthly Update – November 2022
A round-up of legal updates for the Wills and probate industry over the past month is as follows. Tax policy – Autumn Statement and tax reforms It has been an… Read more →
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Wills and Probate Monthly Update – October 2022
A round-up of legal updates for the Wills and probate industry over the past month is as follows. Tax policy – mini Budget and U-turn on 45% tax cut The… Read more →
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The Register of Overseas Entities and the Verification Conundrum
The Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (“ECA”) introduced a register of overseas entities (“ROE”) and was passed on 15 March 2022 after a fast-tracked legislative process following events… Read more →
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Wills and Probate Monthly Update – September 2022
A round-up of legal updates for the Wills and probate industry over the past month is as follows. Will Trusts – Trust Register The deadline for registering non-taxable trusts newly… Read more →
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The UK Trust Register: a moving feast
The UK’s Trust Register legislation[1] (“the AML Regulations“) came into force on 26 June 2017 and established a central UK Trust Register, maintained by HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC“). The… Read more →
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Changes to the Trust Register rules
We highlighted in the Winter 2020/21 issue of In Trust that the law was changing in respect of the registration of trusts with HM Revenue & Customs (“HMRC“), meaning that… Read more →
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EXPANSION OF THE UK TRUST REGISTER
As from 2017, HM Revenue and Customs (“HMRC”) have maintained a centralised database of UK trusts known as the Trust Register. Up until now, the requirement to register has been… Read more →
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Extension of the UK Trust Register
Since 2017, trusts that incur a UK tax liability have been required to register on a central register of trusts (“the Trust Register“) managed by HM Revenue and Customs (“HMRC“).… Read more →
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Wedlake Bell responds to Government’s Trusts Consultation
On 9 November 2018, following a commitment in the Autumn Budget 2017, HM Revenue and Customs published “The Taxation of Trusts: A Review“, a consultation paper looking at how trusts… Read more →
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Wedlake Bell’s Private Client team respond to government consultation on Inheritance Tax (IHT)
On 19 January 2018, the government requested that the Office of Tax Simplification (“OTS“) carry out a review of inheritance tax in order to identify simplification opportunities. The scoping document… Read more →
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Making a Will
Consultation Response: Wedlake Bell LLP On 13 July 2017, the Law Commission launched a major consultation project on the law of Wills. The law in this area has not been… Read more →
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Probate fees increase for high-value estates
Disappointingly, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed that it is going ahead with its controversial proposals to increase the costs of applying for grant of probate under which the maximum… Read more →
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Wedlake Bell responds to plans for a central UK trusts register
The global drive for greater transparency of corporate and other legal entities continues. In an attempt to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, tax evasion and other financial crime, one of… Read more →
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Inheritance Tax planning under the spotlight
There is a fine line between legitimate tax planning and tax avoidance. The latter can be caught under the statutory “general anti-avoidance rule” if it constitutes a tax arrangement that… Read more →