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Insights | Tax

The UK Budget 2025 and property taxes – key takeaways

The UK Budget 2025 was preceded by intense speculation about property tax reform.

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Insights | Private Client

Lifetime Gifting and New Year’s Resolutions: A strategic approach to Inheritance Tax

As we approach the end of another year, I find myself, like many of my clients, reflecting on what really matters.

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Insights | Tax

Inheritance Tax – what changed, what didn’t and how to plan ahead

After the unexpected and fundamental changes to Inheritance Tax (IHT) in last October’s Budget this year’s relative silence on the subject was a welcome relief.

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Insights | Tax

Tax planning may pay dividends for investors

The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, asked ‘everyone to make a contribution’ when presenting her package of new income tax measures at the UK Budget on 26 November.

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Insights | Tax
  • 1 December 2025
  • | Anna Gratwick
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Pensions and Inheritance Tax: What do we know so far?

In Labour’s budget in October 2024, they announced that pensions were going to be included in a deceased’s estate for the purposes of calculating their inheritance tax (‘IHT’) liability from April 2027.

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Insights | Rural

Rural succession: What to do in the event of a farmer’s death

Inheritance for farming families has been a particularly hot topic since the tax changes announced in the October Budget last year, which led to widespread concern among the sector.

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Insights | Energy

Repowering Britain: How grid reform is driving the clean energy transition

The repowering and rewiring of the United Kingdom is now underway.

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Insights | Family Law

Family Law in farming families

Farming families in Scotland face distinctive legal challenges when navigating family law issues such as divorce, financial separation, and childcare arrangements.

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Insights | Rural

The Housing (Scotland) Bill 2025: Key Changes for Residential Tenancies

The forthcoming Housing (Scotland) Bill 2025 marks the most major reform of Scotland’s residential tenancy legislation since the introduction of Private Residential Tenancies (PRTs) in December 2017.

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Insights | London Newsletter

The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 (the “Act”)

The Act, which came into force on 1 April 2025, has provided additional methods to create and enforce certain security interests in Scotland.

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Insights | London Newsletter

Conveyancing differences between Scotland and England

For the English lawyer, there is much about the process of conveyancing in Scotland that is reassuringly familiar, but there are areas of notable difference.

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