Blog Archives

Q&A: My father has left his home to me and my siblings. What will it cost to buy out my siblings?

Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) will most likely be payable if you buy out your siblings’ shares of your father’s property. For example, if the home is worth £1m and your siblings’ shares total £750,000, the liability would be £27,500. …

Posted in Shorter Reads | Comments Off on Q&A: My father has left his home to me and my siblings. What will it cost to buy out my siblings?

John Saner

Comments Off on John Saner

Roger Woolfe

Comments Off on Roger Woolfe

Aidan Grant

Comments Off on Aidan Grant

Daniel Simon

Comments Off on Daniel Simon

Charlie Fowler

Comments Off on Charlie Fowler

Taking tax online?

The Office for Tax Simplification has released its first report on how HMRC’s process of collecting inheritance tax could be improved by simplifying forms and making more of the process digital. These are the sorts of changes that might not …

Posted in Shorter Reads | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Taking tax online?

Cryptocurrency and divorce – are lawyers and the courts up to speed?

With fortunes being won and lost in the space of months, cryptocurrencies are on everyone’s minds and it is inevitable that they are going to form a significant new asset class in many future divorces. But how prepared are lawyers …

Posted in Longer Reads | Tagged | Comments Off on Cryptocurrency and divorce – are lawyers and the courts up to speed?