Skandia launches tax guide series

The guides are designed to help advisers provide relevant tax advice to clients and also form part of Skandia’s technical support package for intermediaries, says the company. Aiming to simplify the latest Government changes to CGT, the documents also cover the taxation of life assurance policies owned by companies, the reporting thresholds for IHT, transferable nil rate bands and revised tax tables. The documents are available to advisers online, via the Skandia literature library on its adviser extranet. Colin Jelley, head of tax and financial planning at Skandia, says: “With the...