October 2011

Using Joint Share Ownership Plans/Growth Share Plans Tax Efficiently

Where approved share option plans are inappropriate or unavailable, companies may instead want to consider creating specific arrangements that may still be tax effective as a means of rewarding employees. The most common arrangements are joint share…

Tough talk with the new UK-Swiss tax agreement?

The Swiss/UK tax agreement, was finally signed and published on 6 October. Under the agreement, accounts held by individual UK taxpayers will be subject to a one-off deduction, provided that they were open on 31 December 2010 and are still open on 31…

New Interactive Online Domicile Test

Establishing when you are, and are not UK domiciled can be crucial for UK tax planning. As well as being able to access the remittance basis, non domiciliaries also have significant inheritance tax planning advantages and can make much more use of…

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