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The Trusts and Estates Agent Advisory Group meets regularly through the year to discuss practical matters to do with trusts and estates.

The stated objective of the transposition is to ensure that the UK’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) regime is kept up to date, effective and proportionate.

In April ATT representatives attended one of the early workshops in HMRC’s latest Master Customer Journey (MCJ) project – the experience of a first time trustee.

Last year, HMRC launched a wide-ranging consultation on the taxation of trusts.

HMRC’s ‘The Taxation of Trusts: a Review’ issued on 7 November 2018 set out the three principles that the government said should underpin the taxation of trusts: transparency, fairness and neutrali

Background

HMRC published a consultation on proposals to strengthen the tax avoidance disclosure regimes for indirect taxes and inheritance tax.

Finance Bill 2016, cl 82 and Sch 15 ensures that the inheritance tax residential nil-rate band (RNRB) is available when a person downsizes or ceases to own a home and other assets are passed on dea

With the support of the ICAEW, the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group, STEP, and the Law Society, the CIOT has made a detailed submission to HMRC and the Treasury on the advantages of removing or miti

The CIOT has responded to the OECD public discussion draft on BEPS Action 15 (development of a multilateral instrument to implement the tax treaty-related BEPS measures).

A recurrent theme of Technical Newsdesk is that consultation in advance of new measures helps to ensure that the policy objectives are clearly defined and that the legislation serves those objectiv