Skandia issues tax guides

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Skandia has issued a range of tax guides explaining the changes brought into effect by the Finance Act 2008, which was implemented in July.

The easy-to-use guides are aimed at providing advisers with the essential tax advice for their clients and are a part of Skandia's specialist technical support package. Covered in the documents are: a simplification of the latest Government changes to CGT; the taxation of life assurance policies owned by companies; the reporting thresholds for inheritance tax; transferable nil rate bands and revised tax tables. The guides are available to advisers online via the Skandia literature library on its adviser extranet. Colin Jelley, head of tax and financial planning at Skandia, commente...

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