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Legal update

COVID-19: Statutory residence test and immigration update

This update focuses on two COVID-19 issues affecting some individuals: residence in the UK under the statutory residence test and immigration status

23 March 2020

Legal update

New GDPR guidance for trustees and personal representatives

STEP has published new guidance as to how the GDPR should be applied in the context of trusts and estates

06 February 2020

Legal update

When is a farmhouse not a farmhouse?

Reassurance for farmers concerned that Inheritance Tax relief might not be available due to low level farming activities in the years prior to their deaths

17 January 2020

Legal update

The interactions of non-domiciled status and British citizenship by naturalisation

Is the intention to make the UK the principal home for naturalisation purposes consistent with the non-domiciled status?

10 December 2019

Legal update

The GDPR: special category data in the context of legal advice and trusts

New ICO guidance clarifies when the GDPR allows special category personal data to be used in the context of obtaining legal advice and offers support for trustees processing such data

15 November 2019

Legal update

Taxation of loyalty payments - HMRC vs Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management

The VAT treatment of loyalty schemes has been complicated further by HMRC v Hargreaves Lansdown. We look at the legal issues and practical implications for companies and advisers

17 October 2019

Legal update

Deal, no deal. How can EU nationals protect their rights in light of Brexit?

As Brexit date is uncertain (i.e. 31 October 2019, 31 January 2020 or whenever it may be), EU nationals and their non-EU family members need to think about how they can protect their status in the UK

09 September 2019

Legal update

Correcting historic tax liabilities

Although tax may be automatically deducted from wages, pensions and savings, the onus is on the taxpayer to self-assess and inform HMRC of anything which is untaxed or under-taxed

04 September 2019

Legal update

The Office of Tax Simplification publish second report on simplifying inheritance tax

The OTS has suggested significant inheritance tax reforms, focusing on interactions of IHT with CGT, Agricultural Property Relief and Business Property Relief, and Lifetime gifts

08 July 2019

Legal update

The GDPR, trustees' lawyers and the right to resist subject access requests

The DPA 2018 broadens the 'legal privilege' defence to allow law firms to resist subject access requests to the extent that documents are the subject of a duty of confidentiality

03 July 2019

Press release