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How To Talk To Your Family About Money
By Jason Mountford, regulated financial planner at Irwin Mitchell Talking about money with other members of our family is still often...
10/11/21Office of Tax Simplifications on Capital Gains Tax
Written by John Bunker, Solicitor and Head of Private Client Knowledge Management Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered his Autumn Budget on...
09/11/21Planning For Your Digital Assets
Written by Yousafa Hazara, Associate Solicitor, Jess Fazzone, Associate Solicitor, and Shannon Tong, Trainee Solicitor - Tax, Trust and...
26/10/21Family Investment Companies vs. Trusts?
Written by Tom Wainman, Partner, Tax, Trusts and Estates Estate and tax planning is most successful when based on the individual...
26/10/21Recently Published Research Highlights Gender Divide in Pension Wealth
Written by Suzi Denton, Practice Development Lawyer, Eugenie Taylor, Associate Solicitor The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), in...
26/10/21Leaving your estate to children who are vulnerable due to an addiction
The newspapers regularly report the details of celebrities wills once their grant of probate has been issued and the will becomes a...
25/10/21The reasoning behind Prince Philip’s will being kept a secret
Written by Danni Brannon, solicitor and Elspeth Gray, paralegal in the Will, Trust and Estate Disputes team It was announced that Prince...
21/10/21Hussain v Parveen: Islamic divorce found to be invalid
By Aysha Chouhdary, associate Family Law solicitor at Irwin Mitchell All family law practitioners are eagerly awaiting the decision in...
13/10/21Can the loser avoid the costs? Goodwin v Avison explained
Written by Alice Robinson, paralegal and Richard Smaller, solicitor in the Will, Trust, and Estate Disputes team The general costs...
13/10/21Gentle "nudge" letters for non-UK domiciliaries to reconsider their tax affairs
By Nicola Midgley and Yousafa Hazara in the Tax, Trusts and Estates team at Irwin Mitchell HMRC have recently issued a round of "nudge"...
11/10/21Grandparents' Day
Written by Naomi Neville, Senior Associate Solicitor and Simon Mackie, Senior Associate Solicitor, from the Tax, Trust and Estates team...
01/10/21Is leaving your inheritance to your children ‘distasteful’ or a moral obligation?”
Written by Elliot Booth, Trainee Solicitor and Michelle Chapman, Associate Solicitor, both in the Will, Trust and Estate Disputes team...
23/09/21Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
By Chrissy Leach, associate accountant at Irwin Mitchell HMRC have recently released further information about Making Tax Digital (MTD...
22/09/21Trust Register: 2021 Update
By Tanya Wadeson, Trust Compliance Manager - Senior Associate at Irwin Mitchell HMRC have finally made the Trust Register live to comply...
22/09/21Pensions Awareness Day: To combine pots, or not to combine pots?
As you move through your career it's normal to build up a lot of Defined Contribution pension pots, with many different companies holding...
15/09/21New inheritance tax accounts rules have wider implications
By Gillian Coverley, a specialist Tax, Trusts and Estates Partner at Irwin Mitchell At the moment every estate that needs Probate...
01/09/21Investing for income
By Louis Wood, investment manager at Irwin Mitchell The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in February last year saw swathes of...
26/08/21What are the changes private client experts should be aware of?
As we head into autumn and with the Chancellor’s statement looming on the horizon, there’s been a flurry of changes for private client...
25/08/21Ingenious Media: film partnership taxpayers win in the Court of Appeal
By Liz Beadsley, Chartered Tax Advisor & Manager - Partner in the Tax, Trusts and Estates team at Irwin Mitchell After a long-running...
23/08/21How can we avoid selling the family home? Care fees and the pitfalls of not planning for property
By Stewart Stretton-Hill, senior associate in the Tax, Trusts and Estates team at Irwin Mitchell Dementia isn't a natural part of ageing...
23/08/21Administering an estate: Where do I start?
By paralegal Laura Williams and solicitor Emily Wentworth in the Tax, Trusts and Estates team at Irwin Mitchell Losing a loved one can be...
23/08/21Will forgery: can they get away with it?
By James Wright and Richard Smaller, solicitors in the Will, Trust and Estate Disputes team at Irwin Mitchell Can disappointed...
16/08/21Do I own my front door? Landlord's fixtures explained
The Upper Tribunal have held that a front door was included within the demise of a lease, in a decision which brings into question the...
16/08/21Removing troublesome executors
By Heather Roberts, Will, Trust and Estate Disputes senior associate at Irwin Mitchell Where a professional executor of a Will is asked...
13/08/21Scholastic CEO leaves Harry Potter fortune to lover
Scholastic CEO, Richard Robinson had a $1.2 billion stake in the Harry Potter publishing company. He died suddenly in June 2021. His Will...
10/08/21HMRC finds no link between tax avoidance and the use of FICs
By Jessica Fazzone, Tax, Trusts and Estates associate at Irwin Mitchell A family investment company (FIC) is a tax efficient vehicle to...
10/08/21Intestacy Rules and Unclaimed Estates
By Michelle Chapman, associate and Alice Jeavons, paralegal in the Will, Trust and Estate Disputes team It might be reasonable to assume...
03/08/21Private judge removed in Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt divorce
By Emily-Jo Moore, trainee solicitor and Emma Hopton, solicitor at Irwin Mitchell Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been going through a...
03/08/21Dispute over the estate of James Brown settled after 15 years
Written by Rachael Williams, solicitor in the Will, Trust and Estate Disputes team at Irwin Mitchell After almost 15 years a settlement...
29/07/21Help! I need somebody... to prepare me for the summer 2021 exams appeals process!
As the dates for release of GCSE, AS, A level and VTQ results draw ever nearer, Jennifer Wright, one of our education experts has set out...
27/07/21