by johnireland | Articles
The Single Biggest Change to Estate Planning in a Generation For the last decade, pensions have been the most inheritance-tax-efficient asset most families own. Advice was straightforward: spend other savings, leave the pension untouched, pass it on outside the...
by johnireland | Tax Talk
HMRC has recovered an extra £1.36 billion from inheritance tax investigations over the past five years, while IHT receipts hit a record £8.5 billion. The proportion of UK deaths triggering an IHT bill is now the highest in almost twenty years. The new battleground is...
by johnireland | Articles
A Record Year for Inheritance Tax — and for Enforcement Inheritance tax receipts reached a record of nearly £8.5 billion in the last tax year. What has received far less attention is how much of that money HMRC had to go and find. New figures show that investigations...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Jim Collins studied 1,435 companies over 40 years to find out why some make the leap from good to great while others never do. The answer was not celebrity leadership, breakthrough technology, or being in a glamorous industry. It was discipline. The key ideas: Level 5...
by johnireland | Articles
The Question Behind the Research Jim Collins and his research team spent five years asking a single question: why do some companies make the leap from being merely good to being truly great — and sustain that greatness — while others in the same industries, with the...
