Hello,
If you were starting out again in practice, how would you plan your business? If you're in the process of selling up, with the benefit of hindsight is there any advance planning you would have done differently? And, what, if anything, are you doing about Inheritance Tax (IHT) planning?
These are all enduring topics for the tax adviser, and as our tax system becomes more complex, they make great material for our Virtual Tax Partner Practical Tax Conference next week.
In the run up to our new tax event, we have been holding our pre-conference Tax Workouts. These have been incredibly popular and all were over-subscribed. We have covered Groups, Family Investment Companies, Furnished Holiday Letting and Anti-Money Laundering, and we have further workshops yet to run on Management Buyouts and Share schemes, but we are leaving those until after the Budget.
If you are thinking of subscribing to our website, then why not come and join us for our tax conference next week? You can meet the team here and also gain some valuable CPD. We have a full schedule which covers two mornings and five different speakers.
One final word on the conference. We experienced some issues with the PayPal button when we began marketing the event; if you think you signed up but have yet to receive any information about accessing the sessions, please contact
Back to the tax update: if you are after some interesting case reports then we have a fair selection this week. The write up about a LLP member's employment status (for National Insurance) caught my eye because just about every case that we see involving a partnership/LLP dispute also involves a badly worded or overly complex partnership/ LLP agreement. Who is responsible for creating these monsters? More often then not, it is the partners themselves. Food for thought if you go into partnership. This is one very good reason why we don't have any LLP agreements on our website.
Lots more news, updates, CPD and details of our forthcoming Virtual Tax Partner Practical Tax Conference below.
Back soon,
Nichola Ross Martin FCA CTA (Fellow)
Tax Director
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