by Leanne Wootton | Oct 24, 2022 | Blog post
It is well known that when looking at funding for care home fees, local councils look at means testing when assessing someone’s ability to pay for care fees. I think that it is also well known that there is pressure on council budgets and the number of people...
by Leanne Wootton | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog post
More and more people are falling into the inheritance tax net, because of a combination of an increase in property prices and the freezing of the nil rate band and the residential nil rate band, which are currently frozen until 2026. HMRC receipts from inheritance tax...
by Leanne Wootton | Oct 3, 2022 | Blog post
This morning Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has done a U turn and announced that the 45% tax rate for the highest earners will not be abolished, previously a measure announced in the mini budget a couple of weeks ago. The reason given for this was that it is “ a...
by Leanne Wootton | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog post
The last time I blogged about this was May 2022….where has that time gone !! The trust registration deadline has come and gone, and believe me, if my experience of this is the same as everyone else who has been involved in the process, this has taken up much of my...
by Leanne Wootton | May 26, 2022 | Blog post
Dealing with an estate can be complex and time consuming for executors. While physical assets (bank accounts, property etc.) can be easy to locate and can then be dealt with accordingly, what about digital assets? Digital assets come in many forms from a Facebook...
