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Lisa advises on a wide range of private wealth issues, including:

  • Administering estates, with particular emphasis on those of high value and those with more complex elements. 

  • Reducing the taxable value of a deceased estate by claiming relevant exemptions and reliefs including business property relief, agricultural property relief and gifts from normal expenditure out of income.

  • Drafting Deeds of Variation to include charitable gifts thereby reducing the inheritance tax rate payable on the estate from 40% to 36%.

  • Administering estates with assets located in the UK and other jurisdictions, including Ireland, Spain and the USA.

  • Administering trusts including the preparation of the annual tax return and HMRC’s Trust Registration Service Online.

Lisa is a full member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (TEP) 

Jurisdiction: England and Wales

Experience

Estate Administration

Submitting a successful gifts from normal expenditure out of income claim in order to reduce the inheritance tax due from £302,166 to £0.00.    

Trust Administration

Winding up a trust on the death of the income beneficiary, including all tax reporting and instructing a tracing agent to locate the missing beneficiaries entitled to the trust funds.

Dealing with the 10 year inheritance tax reporting for a discretionary trust including reviewing the accumulated income in order to reduce the inheritance tax payable.

 

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