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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
12 November 2024
Unpacking the Budget: the impact on UK businesses
The Budget last month sent shockwaves through the UK’s farming and family business communities with the revelation that from 6 April 2026, 100% IHT relief through Business (Property) Relief (“BR”) and Agricultural Property Relief (“APR”) will be capped at £1m of assets (combined agricultural and business property) and over that amount, will be charged at an IHT rate of 50%. Currently there is no limit to the amount of either relief.
31 October 2024
Budget 2024 - Private Client Briefing
Please see below for our immediate thoughts on pertinent parts of the Budget affecting our client base but do let us know if you have any questions or there is anything you wish to discuss.
4 October 2024
Estate & Tax Planning for LGBTQ+ Private Clients: Civil Partnership v Marriage – what’s the difference?
It is reported that same sex couples are statistically more likely to live together without marrying or entering into a civil partnership than heterosexual couples, and there is a mistaken belief that ‘common law spouses’ or ‘common law marriages’ exist in the UK. There is no such thing as a ‘common law marriage’ and, subject to any future changes to cohabitation laws (laws relating to couples who live together but are not married/in a civil partnership), cohabitants do not have the same legal rights as married couples or civil partners upon divorce or dissolution.
19 March 2024
Relax on Grant on Credit IHT rules
With the recent Spring Budget came a relatively small update to Inheritance Tax (“IHT”) whereby applications for a ‘Grant on Credit’ no longer require Personal Representatives (“PR”) to seek commercial loans to pay IHT before they are able to apply for the Grant.
15 February 2024
No children – I don’t need to think about succession and wealth planning, do I?
A growing number of couples live a DINK (“dual income, no kids”) lifestyle instead of the historically ‘traditional’ family structure that includes having children. There has also been a rise in the “single income, no kids” (SINK) lifestyle.
