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Family investment companies: facts about FICs

A family investment company (FIC) structure is a useful tool for wealthy parents to...

Taxation Readers’ Forum: Excluded property trust

Writing for Taxation magazine’s Readers’ Forum, BKL tax consultant Terry Jordan responds to a...

Ingenious: crumbs of comfort

The Ingenious film partnerships have succeeded in their appeal before the Court of Appeal...

It didn’t happen: reversing out of tax schemes

If you’re lucky, the failure of that tax avoidance scheme that seemed like a...

Taxation Readers’ Forum: Estate planning and wills

Writing for Taxation magazine’s Readers’ Forum, BKL tax consultant Terry Jordan responds to a...

Our Certified B Corporation application

In developing BKL’s approach to good business, we’re excited to have submitted our application...

Sales to employee ownership trusts

At certain times of year, a sentence that mentions John Lewis tends to be...

A guide to the Patent Box

The Patent Box is a UK regime which affords companies a 10% corporation tax...

Donating BKL laptops to Change Please

We were pleased to donate laptops to homelessness charity Change Please this year. Change...

Walewski: clarity on mixed partnerships

The Upper Tribunal (‘UT’) have upheld in Walewski v HMRC [2021] UKUT 0133 (TCC)...

Tasting and wasting: whisky casks and tax

When Kenneth Clarke was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he exercised his right to drink...

Substitution explained: Northern Light Solutions Ltd

No: not the sort of substitutions made in the course of the Euro 2020...

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