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The reduced rate of Inheritance Tax: how can it work for you?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 22 2013

If your estate is worth over £325,000 when you die, Inheritance Tax may be due. From 6 April 2012, if you leave 10 per cent of your estate to charity

Potentially calamitous Jane

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • November 12 2012

Jane is forty three years-old

How do baby boomers pass on wealth?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 12 2012

We live in a world of great uncertainty in terms of the global economy and what the future holds for our children and our children’s children

Ministry of Justice launch consultation on transforming the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG)

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 17 2012

The Ministry of Justice have launched a consultation on transforming the OPG

The 2012 budget - how it may affect your donors

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 22 2012

The Budget, introduced by the Chancellor George Osborne on 21 March, introduced several changes to the current tax system, including a cap on uncapped income tax reliefs which will take effect on 6 April 2012

Commission on assisted dying reports

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 13 2012

The Commission on Assisted Dying, established in 2010 by the interest group Dignity in Dying was funded by author Sir Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's

The case of the bishop and the legacy of a vase which was not

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2012

People often like to make gifts of their personal items for sentimental, rather than value, reasons

Trust expenses: capital or income?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2012

In these straitened economic times, many trustees are worried about preserving their trust funds, and are concerned to reduce their liabilities

The conditional exemption: still an uncomfortable straitjacket?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2012

Capital taxation presents a constant obstacle to the custodian of privately owned heritage property seeking to continue the family’s success by retaining it as a family asset

Not entirely altruistic gifts to charity

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 5 2012

Many people are no doubt aware that a cash gift or a part of the residue of an estate given to an organisation recognised as charitable in England & Wales is exempt from Inheritance Tax