Author Archives: Alice Heathfield

PRESS RELEASE: Addressing the broken business rates system

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

CEOs of more than 50 high street retailers have today written to the Chancellor calling for reform on the ‘broken business rates system’.  Business rates have, they say, increased by over 50% since the 1990s and are in part responsible …

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Changes to Collyer Bristow Management Board

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

Law firm Collyer Bristow has made changes to its Management Board following a Partnership election to appoint new departmental heads. Joining the Management Board are Michael Grace, previously Head of the Real Estate Litigation team and now Head of Real …

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An Age of Apathy: the new report from Collyer Bristow

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

Collyer Bristow today publishes the report, ‘An Age of Apathy: Changing the conversation around wills’ which reveals that 68% of adults under the age of 50 with an income of £50k or more in the UK do not have a …

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Lewis Chessman: Ivory rare discovery

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

An extremely valuable medieval chess piece, one of the five missing Lewis Chessmen, has recently been discovered in drawer by a family in Edinburgh.  The 900 year-old Lewis Chessmen hoard was discovered on the Isle of Lewis in 1831 and …

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Tier 1 visa applications

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Alice Heathfield
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Tier 2 visa applications

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Alice Heathfield
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Sponsor licence applications

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Alice Heathfield
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Tax efficient charitable donations

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Alice Heathfield
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Trusts for business owners

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

For clients who own trading businesses, trusts can be useful succession and tax planning vehicles to ensure the preservation of our clients’ wealth.  For example, it may be possible to transfer shares in a business into a trust free from …

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Trusts for future generations

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Alice Heathfield

Where clients wish to provide for their children and grandchildren (e.g. for the provision of school fees), it can be prudent to create a trust of up to the available inheritance tax allowance (known as the nil rate band). There …

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