October 2012

Entrepreneurs Relief and the remittance basis

Entrepreneurs Relief applies to the disposal of trading businesses and also shares in certain trading companies. It's a valuable tax relief as it can reduce the capital gains tax rate to 10% on gains of up £10,000,000 (after April 2011). Non UK…

Extracting cash from an offshore trust tax efficiently

Broadly speaking there are two options to extract cash from the trust: • Income distribution • Capital distribution Income distributions Distributions of income to a UK beneficiary are subject to UK income tax. Capital distributions Capital…

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