Agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) from inheritance tax are key reliefs for farmers and landowners. In many cases they allow most of the value of a farm to be passed on to the next generation without a tax bill. If tax were charged on farms on death, many farming families would […]
The Department for Work and Pensions has published a 30 month review of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) and its assistance with helping separated parents come to their own arrangements for the payment of child maintenance. The CMS was launched in 2012 and replaced the old Child Support Agency. It is designed to help separated families come […]
Stage 2 of the Sizewell C consultation began on the 23 November 2016 and is open to comment until the 3 February 2017. The EDF Development team held a series of public consultation events across the region and included a full suite of publicly available documentation on their website – www.sizewellc.co.uk Development in Brief The potential […]
Stamp Duty was first introduced in 1694 during the reign of William and Mary to raise money to fight a war against the French. It was intended to be a tax on “vellum, parchment and paper” and was levied in various forms until 2003 when the Labour government introduced Stamp Duty Land Tax, a self-assessed […]
