by johnireland | Articles
The Document Everyone Means to Sort Out Two people start a company. They incorporate online, take fifty shares each, use the default model articles, and get on with the work. Five, ten, fifteen years later the business is worth a serious amount of money — and the...
by johnireland | Articles
A Quiet Change With Real Consequences On 30 June 2026, amended money laundering regulations changed the rules for the Trust Registration Service. The reform widens registration requirements for some trusts — particularly certain non-UK trusts with UK connections —...
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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...
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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...
