The Impact Of A Pandemic On The Legal Sector
The coronavirus has undoubtedly had a catastrophic ripple effect that has affected people in so many different ways. Hundreds of thousands of people have sadly lost their lives around the world. Economies have been hit with businesses and livelihoods also being lost. Realm Recruit, an agency which specializes in recruitment for the legal sector conducted […]
Supermen Webinar 67: How To Select The Most Appropriate Trust For Your Client’s Life Planning Needs Part 2
This webinar will be discussing how to select the most appropriate Trust for your client’s lifetime planning needs. Agenda Lifetime Trust that they can benefit from? Lifetime Trust for Inheritance Tax planning Lifetime Trust to “deal with” Capital Gains Tax on additional properties or shares A Trust for Life Insurance proceeds A Trust for lump […]
HMRC Announces Changes To Processes Relating To “Probate Summary” Form
HMRC has announced changes to the way in which it deals with the “Probate Summary” form IHT421 for grants in England and Wales. The Revenue says it will now be emailing the forms directly to HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), rather than returning them. Once this has been done, it adds: “We’ll either write […]
Government Breaches Parliamentary Convention On Social Care Reforms
At the end of last month, we revealed that the Chancellor for the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak received a letter from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee demanding the delays to social care reform be stopped. However, these pleas seemed to fall on deaf ears. As a result of the lack of response to the […]
MPs Urged To Help Lawyers Who Slipped Through Covid-19 Support Gap
The UK Government has seemingly done its utmost to ensure people’s livelihoods hadn’t been completely destroyed by the coronavirus pandemic. The furlough scheme and coronavirus loans have been one way people have attempted to prevent their businesses from going under. However, in some aspects of the economy, certain sectors feels they have slipped through the […]