The Wealth Lawyer
Time to send the family wealth on a foreign holiday?
22 January 2019Taking your family wealth on a foreign holiday always sounds more glamorous than staying at home and doing a bit of housekeeping. Private Wealth partner, Helena Luckhurst encourages you to think about your assets.
Read moreAppeal against UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order rejected
8 October 2018An attempt to appeal the UK’s first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) has recently failed in the High Court. In February 2018, the UK’s National Crime Agency sought an UWO against Mrs A (whose anonymity may only be temporary), seeking information about the purchase of a valuable London property. UWOs require an individual to provide a […]
Read moreDomicile dramas
26 July 2018Many advisers have to grapple with the sometimes difficult question of establishing their client’s domicile. A client’s domicile is fundamentally important in a diverse range of English legal and tax areas, such as whether: a client can bring divorce proceedings in the UK; a client is liable to UK Inheritance Tax on worldwide assets as […]
Read moreUnexplained Wealth Orders – force for good or snoopers’ charter?
1 March 2018Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) are a new tool in the armoury of the UK Government, designed to disrupt the entry of the proceeds of crime into the mainstream economy. From 31 January 2018, UWOs can be issued by the English High Court to enforcement authorities (including HMRC) in respect of (i) non-EU Politically Exposed Persons […]
Read moreCapital Gains Tax and offshore trusts: match fit for April 2018?
14 December 2017The UK’s Autumn Budget contained a welcome lack of new measures affecting the capital gains taxation of offshore (i.e. non-UK) trusts. However, there are Capital Gains Tax changes waiting in the wings, already announced, coming into effect on 6 April 2018. There may be steps that UK resident non-doms and their trustees ought to be […]
Read moreUK tax compliance is getting strict with non-doms
16 November 2017To those of us who spend our working hours musing on tax problems, not thinking about the tax implications of where we choose to live, what we invest in and how we do business can seem, well, pretty strange. However, for most (normal) people, tax, and tax compliance in particular, are not top of their […]
Read moreA new look for The Wealth Lawyer UK
26 October 2017We’ve given our Private Wealth blog, written by partner Helena Luckhurst and team, a refresh! Discover bite sized legal briefings on the UK wealth structuring, asset protection and tax issues affecting your HNW clients, every fortnight. And now you can register to receive briefings by email.
Read moreLegal 500 ranks Fladgate’s private client team
26 October 2017Fladgate LLP is delighted that its private client team has been ranked for ‘personal tax, trusts and probate’ in the recently launched 2017 edition of the Legal 500 Guide to the UK Legal Profession. Editorial states: Matthew Bennett heads the department at Fladgate LLP, and advises UK and foreign nationals and their families on the […]
Read moreLong term UK resident non-doms to be deemed UK domiciled
3 July 2017The UK Government has released draft legislation giving effect to its proposal to deem the domicile status of certain UK resident non-doms to be UK domiciled, regardless of their actual domicile. The changes only apply to non-doms who, on or after 6 April 2017, have been tax resident in the UK for 15 out of […]
Read moreFinance Bill 2017 tax changes: how can UK resident non-doms protect their offshore trusts?
9 February 2017To date, UK resident non-doms may not have been greatly impacted by the UK tax system’s plethora of measures to try to get the foreign income and gains received by offshore trusts (i.e. trusts that are not UK tax resident) taxed in the UK. This is because one of the key anti-avoidance provisions, the ‘S.86 […]
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