Core Tax Annual: Inheritance Tax 2013/14 (Core Tax Annuals) - Softcover

Erwood, Chris; Wünschmann-Lyall, Iris; McLaughlin, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780431589 ISBN 13: 9781780431581

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional, 2013

Synopsis

This essential guide to inheritance tax provides a clearly structured analysis of the major inheritance tax provisions together with relevant tips, pitfalls and planning techniques needed to apply them successfully.

Inheritance Tax 2013/14 guides you step-by-step through the complexities of this increasingly difficult subject. It starts with the basic rules and principles before looking at topics in more depth, including lifetime transfers, gifts with reservation of benefit, settled property, and the various exemptions and reliefs including business and agricultural property relief. Whatever your level of expertise and experience, this book should be a valuable asset to your practice.

Bloomsbury Professional Core Tax Annuals include 'signposts' at the beginning of each chapter containing a summary of the main points and cross-references to relevant sections of the chapter. These, along with the 'focus' sections highlighting the key points in each chapter and examples which are presented in shaded panels for easier reference, makes Inheritance Tax 2013/14 a convenient and accessible resource.

As usual this edition is packed full of practical features including worked examples, precedents, and common-sense know-how. Tax advisers using this book will find it a helpful asset, no matter how complicated the inheritance tax scenario encountered.

Inheritance Tax 2013/14 covers:
Inheritance tax: introduction; Lifetime transfers; IHT on death; Valuation of assets; Gifts with reservation of benefit; Compliance; Trusts: interest in possession; Relevant property trusts; Exemptions and excluded property; Reliefs―General; Business property relief and agricultural property relief; Lifetime planning; Wills and estate planning; Transferable nil rate bands; The family home; Pre-owned assets.

Previous edition ISBN: 9781847669599

About this title

About the Authors

Chris Erwood CTA ATT TEP has 35+ years practical experience at senior level within the field of estate and trust taxation reflecting a balanced mix of HMRC, Big 4 Accountancy and FTSE100 Industry background. Chris is the tax director of Erwood & Associates Ltd which provides a specialist capital taxes consultancy service to the HNWI client and their professional advisors. She is a popular circuit lecturer, regular contributor to technical journals, published technical author in her specialist field of IHT, Estate and (onshore/offshore) Trust taxation and expert consultant to the South West professional forum. A former tutor and external examiner on the tax module of the STEP Diploma programme, Chris is a quality assurance manager on the CIOT chartered tax adviser exam programme.

Iris Wünschmann-Lyall is a solicitor and specialises in estate planning, trusts, probate and tax related matters and is a Registered Trust and Estate Practitioner.

Mark McLaughlin CTA (Fellow) ATT (Fellow) TEP

TAX CONSULTANT

From January 1998 until December 2018, Mark was a consultant in his own tax practice, Mark McLaughlin Associates, which provided tax consultancy and support services to professional firms throughout the UK.

Mark is now a consultant with The TACS Partnership, an independent tax advisory firm that provides high quality, independent advice on all UK taxation matters.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s Private Client (UK and International) Sub-Committees.

Mark is also a lecturer, and has featured in online tax lectures for Tolley Seminars Online.

TAX AUTHOR AND EDITOR

Mark is the Editor of the Core Tax Annuals 2006/07 to 2019/20 (Bloomsbury Professional), and is a co-author of the ‘Inheritance Tax’ Annuals 2006/07 to 2019/20 (Bloomsbury Professional).

Mark is Editor and a co-author of ‘Tax Planning’ (Bloomsbury Professional). He is a co-author of ‘Ray & McLaughlin’s Practical IHT Planning’ (Bloomsbury Professional). Mark is also co-author of ‘Incorporating and Disincorporating a Business‘ (Bloomsbury Professional).

He is Editor and co-author of ‘HMRC Investigations Handbook‘ (Bloomsbury Professional). Mark is a co-author and General Editor of ‘Buy-To-Let Property Tax Handbook‘ (Bloomsbury Professional). Mark has also written numerous articles for professional publications, including ‘Taxation’, ‘Tax Adviser’, ‘Tolley’s Practical Tax Newsletter’ and ‘Tax Journal’.

TAXATIONWEB

Mark is a Co-Founder of TaxationWeb (www.taxationweb.co.uk), which provides free information and resources on UK taxes to taxpayers and professionals.

TAX INSIDER

Mark is a Director of Tax Insider, and Editor of Tax Insider, Property Tax Insider and Business Tax Insider, which are monthly publications aimed at providing tax tips and tax saving ideas for taxpayers and professional advisers. He is also Chief Contributor to McLaughlin’s Tax Case Review, a monthly journal published by Tax Insider.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780431589
• ISBN 13: 9781780431581
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 564