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Moving to the UK? - a briefing for Hong Kongers on the UK’s beneficial tax regime for overseas families
Posted: 09/07/2021
The UK took a significant step to welcome Hong Kongers when it launched the Hong Kong British National (Overseas) (BNO) visa on 31 January 2021. With this visa, the UK Government has sought to remove many of the restrictions that hamper other visa categories......>>
Budget 2021: the repair work begins…
Posted: 03/03/2021
Today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered his Budget and set out the Government’s plans to support businesses and create jobs......>>
The new SDLT surcharge for non-UK resident buyers
Posted: 29/01/2021
New rates of stamp duty land tax (SDLT) will be introduced shortly, for purchasers of residential property in England and Northern Ireland who are not resident in the UK. The new rates will be 2% higher than those that apply to purchases made by UK residents and will apply from 1 April 2021...…>>
What next for capital gains tax? The Office of Tax Simplification makes bold recommendations
Posted: 01/12/2020
Alarm bells will be ringing for many taxpayers and their advisers following the report published by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) on 11 November 2020. Its recommendations, which are made independently to the Government, have the potential to increase capital gains tax (CGT) revenues by billions of pounds...…>>
UK implementation of the Fifth Money Laundering Directive
Posted: 30/10/2020
The Government has introduced new legislation which increases reporting obligations for trusts, following its implementation of the European Union’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD). The legislation came into force on 6 October 2020 and has wide-ranging implications for trusts...…>>
SDLT update: the key points in the Chancellor’s summer statement
Posted: 09/07/2020
On 8 July 2020 the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that the nil rate threshold for stamp duty land tax (SDLT) - that is, that part of the consideration at which no SDLT is paid - would be increased from £125,000 to £500,000 for purchases between 8 July 2020 and 31 March 2021......>>
Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) update on higher rates
Posted: 30/06/2020
The higher rates of stamp duty land tax (SDLT) are 3% above the standard rates that apply to purchases of residential property. These higher rates apply to an individual who purchases residential property in England at a time when they already own another residential property anywhere in the world...…>>
How the Covid-19 pandemic may affect an individual’s tax position in the UK
Posted: 25/03/2020
Tax residence in the UK is determined under the Statutory Residence Test (the SRT) and is, in large part, based on the number of days an individual spends in the UK in a tax year (which runs from 6 April each year to the following 5 April). An individual is considered to have spent a day in the UK if they are in the UK at midnight...…>>

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