Tax planning

While tax planning is relatively easy where investments are held in an individual’s own name, on Valentine's Day Neil MacGillivray says great care is needed when it comes to jointly held investments between spouses...

IHT to double by 2030

The changes to IR35 tax rules are going to offer tax and life planning opportunities, writes Ian Smart, who explains all in this column...

Residential care fees are a hot topic at the moment, says Libby Holding, with increasing media coverage of people who have had all of their life savings and assets swallowed up by care fees in their later years...

Wider reform desperately needed

'Aggressive move without being throat-cutting'

The new calendar year has come and gone and so, as we start the edge closer to the end of the tax year, Neil MacGillivray looks at the planning opportunities available to married couples and civil partners

'Select the right BR investments'

Lack of understanding

Deal-flow