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07 March 2001
Issue: 3797 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

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I would like to comment on an article which appeared in Taxation on 1 February 2001 at pages 410 to 412. It was by Mark McLaughlin and concerned the Schedule E implications of payments made to family members in personal injury cases.
The article highlights the problems of such payments being taxable under Schedule E, but I believe that a different approach would be of general interest to other practitioners who encounter this particular workload.

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I would like to comment on an article which appeared in Taxation on 1 February 2001 at pages 410 to 412. It was by Mark McLaughlin and concerned the Schedule E implications of payments made to family members in personal injury cases.
The article highlights the problems of such payments being taxable under Schedule E but I believe that a different approach would be of general interest to other practitioners who encounter this particular workload.
My firm handles a number of Court of Protection cases and I have just successfully taken such payments completely outside the tax net in a case very similar to the scenario painted by Mr McLaughlin in his opening paragraph.
Under the Mental Health Act 1983 the Court has a wide discretion to make maintenance and other provision for the...

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