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Obtaining specific UK and international tax planning advice from a good tax adviser can prove to be both difficult and expensive. Charge out rates begin at £150/hour and increase rapidly if you go to a recognised expert. In addition you'll find that many high street accountants lack the specialist skills required to advise on offshore tax planning.

Our service gives members access to fast online tax planning guidance advice, (covering both UK and offshore tax planning) from top tax experts at a substantially reduced cost.

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Our Tax Experts Paul Hotchkiss Paul Hotchkiss is a former KPMG tax partner who has significant tax experience in the offshore arena. He's a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant, Chartered Tax Advisor and is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). Mark Giddens Mark is a tax partner at UHY Hacker Young, a top 20 group of UK chartered accountants. He's a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and advises individuals and their businesses on all aspects of UK tax with his principal specialism being UK/offshore and non-dom tax planning, inheritance tax, and residence issues . Lee Hadnum Lee worked in Ernst & Young's tax department for several years and is now our Editor and full time tax writer. He is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser and is the author of numerous best selling tax planning books. Professor John Ward John is a specialist in both UK and Irish tax planning and is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Chartered Accountants and a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Taxation. He is the Professor of Tax at the University of Ulster. Richard Brunton Richard is a Florida CPA based in Boca Raton,Florida. Since 1984 his practice has been limited to international taxation and he is the author of numerous articles on international taxation for various newspapers and other publications. Francesco Bertagnin Formerly of BDO Gibraltar, Francesco specialises in advising individuals on Gibraltar and Spanish taxation issues and has both UK and Spanish tax qualifications . Chris Lindsay Chris was the lead tax principal in a large NZ accountancy firm. He now runs his own tax consultancy firm, and specialises in tax planning and advice to anyone migrating to or from New Zealand as well as complex cross border tax planning . Simon Binsted Simon Binsted is ideally placed to answer any Andorran questions. On going to Andorra in 1986, he co-founded Andorra's only English-language services company, which was then incorporated as Servissim in 1990. He is President of The International Club of Andorra. Douglas Seaton Douglas Seaton was one of HMRC's leading experts in all Employment Status issues and helped draft IR35 legislation, the current CIS procedures and co wrote and presented several training courses on the subjects. Douglas has over 34 years of experience and provides specialist services to both accountancy firms and the general public. Danny Hamilton Danny Hamilton is a Principal Accountant at BB Whitehouse Accountants, a specialised tax consulting firm based in Brisbane, Australia. Danny holds an Accounting degree from the University of New England, is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Australia), Registered Tax Agent and Self Managed Superannuation Adviser with over 12 years experience. Lee Penrose Lee used to run his own specialist trust business and after selling that business held a number of senior posts in large institutions. He acted as a Director and ran HSBC Trust Corporation (Isle of Man) Limited for six years afterwards taking up the role of Managing Director of Standard Bank Trust Company (Isle of Man) Limited. Gary Barlow Gary has spent the majority of his 22 year career working as an Independent Financial Adviser within two large chartered accountancy firms the later of which being a Partner for 6 years. Stelios Kazamia Stelios is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC).

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WealthProtectionReport is edited by Lee Hadnum LLB ACA CTA, who is a full time tax writer. He is the author of a number of popular UK and offshore tax planning books and also assists with tax questions via the online Q&A service. Members of WealthProtectionReport can get questions answered for free, as well as having access to hundreds of tax planning reports and articles.

As well as Lee, experts on WealthProtectionReport include Partners and Senior Partners of international accountancy firms and tax practices.

Lee is a rarity among tax advisers having both legal and chartered accountancy qualifications. After qualifying as a prize winner in the Institute of Chartered Accountants entrance exams, he went on to become a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and worked for Ernst & Young for several years.

Lee is also the regular tax columnist for a number of magazines.

As a member you can e-mail Lee directly with tax questions.

:: What does it cost to join?

We have membership options starting at £1.00.

:: Why is membership not free?

You won't get tax planning guidance from highly trained and qualified tax advisers for free. We operate on the basis of a substantially reduced cost, and with our wide membership can offer our members access to the best tax planning from recognised experts at a very low monthly, quarterly or annual membership fee.

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If your tax affairs are anything other than very basic you'll save tax with our service. Have a look around the site to see the huge scope of tax planning areas we cover. Many of our members recoup their subscription fee with tax savings within the first month.

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Our members come from all walks of life ranging from firms of accountants, chief executives of FTSE 100 companies and successful entrepreneurs to property developers/investors and city bankers. Anyone with an interest in tax planning will benefit from membership.

:: I need A LOT of advice!...How may questions can I ask?

You can ask as many questions as you like!

:: What type of questions can I ask?

You can ask any UK tax question(s). To give you an idea here's the last 15 questions submitted:

UK IHT liability for non-dom - USERNAME: Andre - 22/05/2012 Calculation of capital gain - USERNAME: sw3043 - 21/05/2012 Occupation of property by shareholder & UK tax in property development company - USERNAME: hector - 21/05/2012 Tax on interest and UK cash balances as a non-dom -USERNAME: Dimitris2011 - 18/05/2012 Capital allowances on purchase of business property - USERNAME: taxquestions12 - 18/05/2012 Using offshore company & trust structure rather than just an offshore trust?- USERNAME: taxpoint - 17/05/2012 Tax paid under Swiss "fait fiscal" and UK double tax relief - USERNAME: rodbin - 16/5/2012 Tax relief on foreign pension contribution - USERNAME: magsApips - 16/05/2012 Interest deduction on let property used as main residence - USERNAME: tretretre - 16/05/2012 Renewals basis for unfurnished/partly furnished property? - USERNAME: RA - 15/05/2012 Tax relief for leasing property by LLP - USERNAME: t.dhanjal - 15/05/2012 Inheritance tax questions - USERNAME: Gem - 14/05/2012 Transferring assets prior to UK residence to extract cash free of UK tax - USERNAME: lucky04 - 14/05/2012 Visits to the UK and establishing non UK residence - USERNAME: forcer - 14/05/2012 EIS relief for existing company - USERNAME: taxpoint - 11/05/2012 2,814 tax consultancy questions answered as at 1 May 2012 - Free for members View more Q&A's

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