by johnireland | Tax Talk
Moving abroad does not take your estate out of UK inheritance tax straight away.Since 6 April 2025, UK inheritance tax on your worldwide estate depends on being a long-term UK resident — UK resident in at least 10 of the previous 20 tax years.Leave the UK and you stay...
by johnireland | Articles
Most estate planning advice is written with children in mind. Leave the house to the kids, protect the grandchildren, think about university fees. But a great many of the business owners and property investors we meet have no children at all — some single, some...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012) asks a simple question of anything you own: does disorder hurt it, leave it unchanged, or make it stronger?Taleb sorts things into fragile (harmed by shocks), robust (unaffected) and antifragile (improved by them).Key tools:...
by johnireland | Estate Planning Essentials
Without a Will, the intestacy rules in England and Wales decide who inherits. A spouse or civil partner takes everything; otherwise the estate goes to parents, then siblings (or their children if a sibling has died), then half-siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles,...
by johnireland | Articles
Many of the people we speak to have a plan for the next chapter. Sell the business or hand it on, keep a couple of rental flats ticking over, and spend more of the year somewhere warmer — Spain, France, Portugal. Somewhere along the way, a lot of them have picked up...
