Because the child is under age, or not otherwise competent to manage their own affairs & has been given a large sum of money. The money is not the property of the parents, it is the property of t… (View Post)

Is it a tax minimisation strategy to own one residential property & pay the relevant stamp duty on purchase? I’m not entirely sure people will see paying exactly what everyone else pays as “a tax… (View Post)

She is (I believe) legally barred from claiming the grace & favour apartment as her main residence, even if she spends most of her time there. (View Post)

The Bournemouth flat was the only property Raynor owned. The problem is that the rules around trusts mean that, for tax purposes, the property that was put into trust for her child is treated as if s… (View Post)

NB. To give an example of this - the last Parliament made a sensible change to the planning regulations that said that it would be permitted to add an extra floor to your property (with reasonable re… (View Post)