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The shadow chancellor is considering plans to impose a new lifetime gifts tax with a threshold of just £125,000.

Proposals to the Labour party on possible reforms to the taxation of land would, if implemented, radically change the tax landscape.

Most lifetime gift givers are unaware of the various tax exemptions, and those who are aware are largely uninfluenced by them – which begs the question, is all this tax complexity really necessary?

A recent Court of Appeal decision highlights the inheritance tax risks of transfers between pension schemes when in ill health, write Nicholas Harries, Robin Vos and Alice Ogden (Macfarlanes).

Wendy Walton (BDO) focuses on tax changes in 2018 that have an impact on key themes that are currently important to private clients: the creation and preservation of wealth, the transition of wealth to future generations, and tax transparency.

Emma-Jane Weider and Claire Weeks (Maurice Turnor Gardner) focus on those UK resident individuals who are non-UK domiciled but who will become ‘deemed domiciled’ for tax purposes from the start of the 2019/20.

Andrew Goldstone and Moustapha Hammoud (Mishcon de Reya) provide your monthly update.
 
Sue Laing (Boodle Hatfield) reviews the long awaited consultation.
 
Sarah Squires (Old Square Tax Chambers) reports on a Tax Journal event where the OTS shared its mission to make it easier to compute and pay tax.
 
Lynne Rowland (Kingston Smith) examines the new IHT disclosure rules which took effect from April.
 
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