Inheritance Tax

What are the tax implications of converting a director’s loan?

Inheritance tax implications of the diversification of activities

Woodland Trust v B M Loring and others, Court of Appeal

IHT business property relief on AIM shares can be lost easily

HG Kousouros v R O’Halloran & A Aresti, High Court (Chancery Division)

Executors of estate of Simon Verdegaal (TC3994)

The chancellor, George Osborne, has pledged to abolish the so-called death tax on pension funds, announcing measures that will allow retirement pots to sidestep the 55% due when the holder dies.

The change is scheduled to come into effect in April next year, when individuals with a drawdown arrangement or uncrystallised pension fund in a defined contribution (DC) scheme will be able to nominate a beneficiary to receive their pension.

P Routier and CA Venables (Coulter’s Executors) v CRC, Chancery Division

J Groves (TC3974)

Management of farmland can be crucial to agricultural property relief claims

Will a delay in a declaration of trust mean a loss of main residence relief?

Highlights from the event held at the University of Warwick