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Wednesday, June 30, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Day in the life,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
links,
HNWIs,
property,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
Bespoke,
magazine,
trusts,
yachts,
amnesty,
fund management
Bespoke’s summer issue is out now and features 28 pages of practical advice on specific financial issues of relevance to the HNW community, as well as some lighter lifestyle reads. We’ll be picking out some of the features here on the Bespoke blog, but you can download a virtual copy of the new issue to read now. Here’s a preview of what’s inside…
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories:
Business
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
economy,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
income tax,
Richard Jameson,
VAT,
budget,
relief,
George Osborne,
deficit,
budget2010,
NICs,
personal allowance
Tax hikes announced with more spending cuts and blood-letting to follow in the autumn – that’s how Chancellor George Osborne’s intends to balance the books with today’s Emergency Budget. But what didn’t he mention?
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Friday, June 11, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: HNWIs,
property,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
pensions,
IHT,
tax avoidance,
NIC,
budget,
planning,
domicile,
residence,
PPR,
private residence relief,
NICs,
National Insurance Contributions
How are your revenues, assets and tax planning likely to be affected in Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget on 22 June? We look at seven areas that will affect high net worth individuals…
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Friday, May 07, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business
| Tags: business,
links,
economy,
government,
reaction,
election,
British Chambers of Commerce,
CBI,
stockmarket,
tax rises,
hung parliament,
uk election
As the UK wakes up to the first hung parliament since 1974, what are the views of business leaders, economists and analysts? And do you agree with them?
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Monday, March 29, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
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Business,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
entrepreneurs,
economy,
CGT,
income tax,
Richard Jameson,
budget,
Gordon Brown,
Alistair Darling,
stamp duty,
fiscal drag,
PSBR,
budget2010,
election,
forecasts,
NICs
Attempted headline-grabbing announcements, stealth taxes and the devil contained in the detail – that was the style of Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Budget 2010 speech. As for substance it held no great surprises.
So where are the savings (and where is the pain) for companies and high net worth individuals?
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Thursday, March 25, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
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Business,
Personal
| Tags: business,
tax,
Francesca Lagerberg,
budget,
BBC,
Mike Warburton,
Ellie Gamble,
Karen Ward,
WPP,
The Daily Telegraph,
Robert Miller,
Martin Sorrell
Watch our interviews with a few of Grant Thornton’s tax experts sharing their views. You can find out more about Grant Thornton’s viewpoint on our Budget Comment site
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Monday, February 08, 2010 | Posted by: Richard Jameson
Categories:
Business,
Employer,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: economy,
Richard Jameson,
government,
tax policy,
relocation,
Tax Manifesto,
NICs,
labour,
National Insurance Contributions,
flexible,
manifesto,
personal tax allowance,
working,
jobs
Flexible working, targeted National Insurance holidays, tax breaks for new workers or the long-term unemployed… with 1% going on National Insurance Contributions, we need to stimulate the jobs market to keep workers off state benefits. Here’s some free advice for the next government…
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Infographic,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
finance,
offshore,
infographic,
banking,
tax haven,
IMF,
jurisdiction
While most people think of the traditional tax haven as being somewhere like Switzerland or Bermuda, there are in fact more than 60 offshore financial centres around the world, according to the IMF.
Grant Thornton’s latest infographic shows the scale and global spread of such offshore tax jurisdictions, locating them by country, city and island/political region…
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Friday, January 08, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: business,
Francesca Lagerberg,
government,
tax policy,
tax manifesto,
petition,
Monetary Policy Committee,
e-petition,
thinktank
We need your help. As part of our Tax Manifesto campaign, Grant Thornton is urging the Government to set up a specialist body of business and tax experts to help formulate UK tax policy. Francesca Lagerberg, Grant Thornton’s Head of Tax, lodged an e-petition with 10 Downing Street to set up a tax policy committee. It takes just a minute or two to sign and we need just 500 signatures to get a response. So please sign the petition now! And don’t leave tax just to the politicians. For more information, read on…
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009 | Posted by: Paul Roberts
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
HMRC,
tax amnesty,
NDO,
New Disclosure Opportunity,
Paul Roberts,
UK tax liabilities,
offshore funds,
protect your wealth,
Tax havens
…but only by a matter of five weeks. The deadline to register under the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO) announced by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) this summer has been extended from 30 November 2009 to 4 January 2010. If anyone has been thinking about whether or not to make use of this ‘tax amnesty’, then now is the time to decide, but why has HMRC moved the date?
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