A short explanation of Inheritance Tax and how to plan for it in your tax planning.
General
This section contains miscellaneous & general financial information that you may find useful when dealing with certain life events.
Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom, granted under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, allow couples to obtain essentially the same rights and responsibilities as marriage. Initially the Act permitted only same-sex couples to form civil partnerships. This was altered to include opposite-sex couples in 2019. Though from March 2014 full same-sex marriage was legalised in England, Scotland and Wales, civil partnership remains available. Designed to be very much equivalent to marriage for same sex couples, a civil partnership carries both rights and responsibilities, in very broad terms, attracting the same legal and tax protections/advantages/disadvantages as a traditional marriage. This article explains further.
UK News
Tips to make travelling as smooth as possible, whether you’re going by road, plane, train or ferry.
The department store is pushing to build rental flats as it looks for new ways to bring in money.
The Competition and Markets Authority says poor competition cost British motorists £1.6bn last year.
The chancellor will unveil a public spending hole on Monday, which speculation suggests could hit £20bn.
The plane maker has sold dozens of new jets at the Farnborough airshow, but is struggling to keep up with demand.