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...
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 | Articles
A Yorkshire farmer made a new Will a few weeks before he died unexpectedly. It left his second wife a £5 million tax-free legacy, the right to live in their home for life, and the contents. Everything else — a farming estate worth tens of millions — went to his son....
by johnireland | Articles
Most owners of growing firms have a customer like this. The work was delivered on time, the invoice went out the same day, and six weeks later you are still being told it is “in the next payment run”. Meanwhile wages, VAT and suppliers all have to be paid...
