IHT

Carolyn Steppler Elena Dunn Alice Martin

Alice Martin, Elena Dunn and Carolyn Steppler (Charles Russell Speechlys) consider the UK tax and practical risks arising from offshore trust loans, including unexpected IHT exposure, settlor charges and the consequences of irrecoverable debts.

Jihao Zhang

Consultant Jihao Zhang works through eight scenarios for offshore trusts under the new long-term residence test, covering living and deceased settlors, the IHT tail, transitional protections and the £5m cap.

Penny Cogher

Penny Cogher (Irwin Mitchell) examines the extension of IHT to pension funds from April 2027, including the new concept of ‘notional pension property’, expanded liability for tax, and the significant practical and administrative challenges for PRs, schemes and beneficiaries.

Ros Martin

Consultant Ros Martin provides an overview of this year’s Finance Act, including reforms to income tax and inheritance tax, the recast carried interest regime, changes to capital allowances and venture capital schemes, and expanded compliance and anti-avoidance provisions.

Simon Douglas

Simon Douglas (5 Stone Buildings) considers the will-drafting consequences of the new £2.5m allowance and its transferability – and explains why traditional ‘100% relief’ clauses may now not always achieve the desired result.

John Barnett

The Government’s approach to APR and BPR reform combines delay and anti-forestalling in a way that risks serious unintended consequences, writes John Barnett (CIOT).

Rachel de Souza

Rachel de Souza (RSM UK) charts a tumultuous year for international private clients, as sweeping changes to domicile, offshore trusts and IHT prompted unprecedented restructuring – and, for some, departure from the UK.

Penny Cogher

The 2,000 cap: Generally, the pensions industry, businesses (of all sizes), pensioners and individuals will heave a collective sigh of relief that the Chancellors smorgasbord Budget has stayed away from tinkering with anything more than...

David Milne KC

There will be the usual complaints about the tax burden on working people, but it is very modest compared with the 1960s and 1970s, when the top rate of income tax was still 98%, imposed to pay the USA for the monies lent to us for WW2. There will...