11/12/2020 2:12:12 PM Office of Tax Simplification makes recommendations on Capital Gains Tax By HKOne On 11 November 2020, the Office of Tax Simplification ("OTS") published its review of Capital Gains Tax ("CGT"). This followed a request...
10/30/2020 12:00:00 AM Right to Rent Guidance for Landlords By HKOne The Home office has consolidated all the Code of Practices on right to rent into one guidance on 2 November 2020. The published guidance...
7/28/2020 8:26:48 AM Covid-19: Wills by video-conferencing By Jessica Rush Over the weekend, the Government announced that Wills witnessed via videolink will be considered valid, as a response to difficulties...
7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM Will COVID-19 challenge our investment values? By HKOne There isn't an investor programme in the world which has been able to escape criticism - the prospect of selling nationality to those...
7/22/2020 4:55:55 PM New legislation to combat Covid-19 shakes up AGM rules By Stephen Heinemann The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 has introduced sweeping changes to the corporate landscape, including a range of short...
7/1/2020 12:27:05 PM Covid-19: Execution of documents by trustees By Liz Palmer In the first two posts of this series, we looked at the practical considerations for trustees during this global health crisis, and how...
6/24/2020 11:15:48 AM Family Businesses - the future of investing? By Gillian White The FT in a recent opinion piece draws together some interesting data about the performance of listed businesses where family share...
6/17/2020 7:23:52 AM HMRC moving with the times By HKOne Whilst some governmental organisations have been slow to react and adapt to the challenges thrown up by Coronavirus (I'm talking about...
6/10/2020 12:00:00 AM Covid-19: Trustee decision making By Liz Palmer In our first piece we looked at considerations that trustees may have about their duties during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this post, we...
5/26/2020 12:00:00 AM Covid-19: Trustee duties and considerations By Liz Palmer In these difficult times of Covid-19, it is important for trustees to consider the impact that this might have on their duties and...
5/20/2020 2:03:26 PM Babies and Borders By HKOne The impacts of COVID-19 are numerous in number and severe in effect. But perhaps an unexpected consequence of the global lockdown is the...
4/3/2020 12:00:00 AM Social Distancing and Signing Wills By Jessica Rush Simon Malkiel The law governing the creation of wills must always strike a balance between two competing concerns. On the one hand, it must give scope...