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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Infographic
| Tags: statistics,
recession,
survey,
infographic,
chart,
divorce,
marriage,
credit crunch,
reasons for divorce
Marriages are supposed to be ‘for better or worse’, but how sturdy are they in a depressed economy?
Grant Thornton’s Boom or bust for divorce? survey, released this summer, saw family lawyers predicting a fall in the number of UK divorces as couples discover they can’t afford to split. But, as our new divorce infographic shows, rows over finances are on the rise. Read on to see how this – and other reasons for divorce – have changed between 2003 and 2008.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: HMRC,
Richard Jameson,
tax avoidance,
transfer,
distribution,
HNWIs, high net worth unit,
family wealth,
high net worth individual,
settlement,
Large Business Service,
real-time information,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
Protect your wealth
A recent drive to improve working with agents shows, among other things, that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) wants to move to ‘real-time’ information on the top 5,000 high net worth individuals. What does this mean for the UK’s richest taxpayers?
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
offshore,
Dave Jennings,
tax havens,
disclosure,
penalties,
Protect Your Wealth,
Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility,
Liechtenstein,
tax amnesty,
NDO,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
LDF
What’s Liechtenstein but a sweet old-fashioned notion? What’s Liechtenstein got to do, got to do with it? Who needs a haven when a haven can be broken? With recent pressures on UK investors to disclose offshore funds, Liechtenstein’s status as a tax haven for UK investors is in question. But the new Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) seems to offer the most lenient amnesty…
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Monday, September 07, 2009 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax planning,
inheritance tax,
income tax,
Sue Knight,
income,
trusts,
tax planning solutions,
taxable income,
high income
The Budget 2009 announcements of the changes affecting high income individuals have brought tax planning into focus. On earned income, with the planned increase in the rate of national insurance contributions from April 2011, the effective rate of tax suffered could be as high as 61.5% on some slices of income.
Here are 10 common scenarios and some tax planning solutions…
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 | Posted by: Mike Warburton
Categories:
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax planning,
survey,
divorce,
tax relief,
marriage,
pre-nuptials,
Mike Warburton,
pre-nups,
matrimonial,
settlement,
Heather Mills,
Jordan,
Peter Andre,
celebrity,
Katie Price,
Paul McCartney,
maintenance
A few months ago I joined Jeremy Vine on his Radio 2 show to discuss the tax problems of the wealthy. Sitting in the green room, I was first joined by veteran rocker Joe Brown , complete with guitar, who was on the programme just before me. Shortly afterwards I was joined by Katie Price, complete with hairdresser, chauffeur and minder.
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