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Thursday, December 15, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
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Business,
Day in the life,
Green,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: business,
tax,
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The latest issue of Grant Thornton’s Bespoke magazine is out now and comes packed with lifestyle features, tax perspectives and wealth management issues, and other hot topics facing high earners and high net worth individuals in the UK. Here’s what you’ll find in our latest issue and how to join our mailing list.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
pensions,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
pension planning
Our recent blog series answered your most frequently asked questions about pensions, as well as how to make the best use of new rules on pension contributions. Here’s a round-up of our four-part guide …
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Friday, October 28, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
minimise,
high earners,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
income drawdown,
flexible drawdown,
annuity,
capped drawdown,
50% tax
A common reason clients give for not wishing to contribute to pensions are the restrictions on how and when they can access their pension benefits after retirement. From April this year there is a new option for such retirees. Flexible drawdown, as the name suggests, will give individuals much more freedom as to how they take their pension benefits.
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Friday, October 21, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
retirement,
Mike Hyland,
minimise,
high earners,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
lifetime allowance,
lifetime tax relief,
fixed protection,
50% tax
Our pension series continues with a look at the changes to the pension rules, which may cost you up to £165,000 if you don’t take action before 6 April 2012.
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Friday, October 14, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
IHT,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
high earners,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
pensions changes,
pensions carry forward,
annual allowance,
50% tax rate
After answering some of the most common pension questions in our post last week, we now consider the recent changes to the rules on pension contributions and how you could make best use of the new rules to provide for yourself and your family.
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Friday, October 07, 2011 | Posted by: Mike Hyland
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
tax planning,
HNWIs,
income tax,
pensions,
retirement,
tax relief,
Mike Hyland,
minimise,
high earners,
higher rate taxpayer,
pension,
James Temperley,
pension series,
annuity,
50% tax rate
Welcome to our new blog series on pensions. As an introduction, we will answer some of the most commonly asked pension-related questions and look at why now is such a good time to consider pension planning.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | Posted by: Naomi Smith
Categories:
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
property,
capital gains tax,
inheritance tax,
CGT,
income tax,
pensions,
IHT,
retirement,
transfer,
partnership,
marriage,
Naomi Smith,
shares,
assets,
personal allowance,
spouse,
transferable allowances,
advantages,
Married Couple’s Allowance
Marriage isn’t just for romantics. There are all sorts of financial gains, tax reliefs, benefits, exemptions and other advantages to be had when you sign on the dotted line.
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
Francesca Lagerberg,
capital gains tax,
CGT,
income tax,
HNWI,
pensions,
budget,
NIC,
relief,
2011,
national insurance contributions,
allowances,
reliefs,
Enterprise Investment Schemes,
childcare,
ISAs,
new tax year,
Entrepreneurs’ Relief,
exemptions
Here’s quick refresher of tax changes that kick in from today (6 April 2011), by Grant Thornton’s Head of Tax, Francesca Lagerberg, who says that it will be high net worth individuals (HNWIs) who have more to feel down about overall, including limits on how much they can save in their pension funds.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories:
Business,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
property,
pensions,
tax avoidance,
budget,
relief,
planning,
stamp duty,
deficit,
GAAR,
non-dom,
residence,
Office for Tax Simplification,
predictions,
non-domicile,
PPR,
private residence relief,
personal allowance,
stamp duty land tax
What lies in store for high net worth individuals (HNWIs) and high earners in the UK in next week’s Budget? Francesca Lagerberg, Grant Thornton’s Head of Tax, makes some predictions…
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Thursday, January 06, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business,
Personal,
Protecting your wealth
| Tags: tax,
entrepreneurs,
tax planning,
property,
inheritance tax,
CGT,
income tax,
Sue Knight,
pensions,
IHT,
income,
debt,
reduce,
pilot trusts,
minimise,
capital gains,
savings,
strategies,
personal
Don’t miss our excellent money-saving series from Sue Knight, Director, Tax. Here’s a roundup of her posts on strategies for reducing your income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax burdens.
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