Issue: Vol 157, Issue 4066

JOHN WOOLLEY provides an inheritance tax update on life assurance trusts.

MIKE TRUMAN asks whether HMRC realise the harm that their pilot policy of interventions will do to relations with agents.

ALLISON PLAGER reports proceedings from the seventh and eighth sittings of the Finance Bill Standing Committee A.

NICHOLA ROSS MARTIN considers shares in owner-managed companies and the potential for dividends to be treated as remuneration.

Professional expenses insurance: is this just nice to have or vitally important to the financial health of the practice? ALLISON PLAGER investigates.

Deal of the week My client is a small family limited company. Historically, it carried out car repairs and maintenance. Regular customers would ask the proprietor to look out for suitable cars if they...

King of the road A client has taken on a new employee as a sales representative covering all of the UK, which will involve staying overnight near customers most nights of the working week. The...

Buy-out fallout We act for a company, X Ltd, and its majority shareholder Mr X. Mr X owns 65% of X Ltd and, until recently, Mr Z owned the other 35%. The company has some trading activity, but the...

HCI sadness My client has advised me that one of their employees (who had a wife and young family) has sadly passed away at a very young age. He was also only a couple of months into a home computer...