Stephen Parnham Taxation Limited
Cheltenham Chartered Tax Advisers
Advising throughout the UK
Some 40% of people do not know how much money can be passed on free of inheritance tax (IHT), research from Zurich has found. Statistics from the provider also showed 36% of over 55s did not know how much they…
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Under proposed changes to the inheritance tax, the current rules on gift-giving could be cut down from seven years to five. A review of the system ordered by chancellor Philip Hammond claimed the period in which executors are required to…
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Inheritance tax receipts have increased to a record £5.4 billion in the 2018/19 tax year according to HM Revenue and Customs figures published in late April. Receipts increased by around £160 million in just a year from £5.2 billion in…
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The archive of the late Tony Benn has been donated to the British Library under the acceptance in lieu scheme, allowing his family to reduce a substantial inheritance tax bill. The enormous collection, comprising several hundred thousand documents and recordings…
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Chancellor Philip Hammond wrote to the Office of Tax Simplification in January last year asking it to review inheritance tax. In a report published in November 2018, the OTS recommended the government implement a fully integrated digital system for IHT….
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The archive of the late Tony Benn has been donated to the British Library under the acceptance in lieu scheme, allowing his family to reduce a substantial inheritance tax bill. The enormous collection, comprising several hundred thousand documents and recordings…
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A special relief from inheritance tax is afforded to land that is occupied “for the purposes of agriculture”. The term is not exhaustively defined – no doubt the parliamentary draftsman thought that unnecessary and that, like an elephant, you would…
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The lack of awareness around inheritance tax (IHT) in the UK has increased in the last year, with half (50%) of over-45s admitting to be unaware their main property could be subject to IHT. According to Canada Life’s latest edition…
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