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In early April, HMRC announced some changes to inheritance tax processes and procedures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In January 2020, most of the Fifth Money Laundering Directive was implemented – apart from the provisions for the expansion of the Trust Register, where further consultation is planned.&nbs

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