Full Description
This essential guide to inheritance tax provides a clearly structured analysis of the major tax provisions together with the tips and planning techniques you will need to apply them successfully. This is the only text to take full account of the peculiarities of Inheritance Tax in a Scottish context. Inheritance Tax in Scotland 2017/18 focuses on the day-to-day issues tax advisers frequently encounter in practice. Packed full of useful features including worked examples, diagrams, and common-sense know-how, tax advisers using this essential book will be directed to explanations and answers to key inheritance tax questions and scenarios. Fully updated to the Finance Act 2017
Contents
Overview of Scottish Issues for Inheritance Tax Chapter 1: Inheritance tax: introduction Chapter 2: Lifetime transfers Chapter 3: IHT on death Chapter 4: Valuation of assets Chapter 5: Gifts with reservation of benefit Chapter 6: Compliance Chapter 7: Trusts: interest in possession Chapter 8: Relevant property trusts Chapter 9: Exemptions and excluded property Chapter 10: Reliefs - General Chapter 11: Business property relief and agricultural property relief Chapter 12: Lifetime planning Chapter 13: Wills and estate planning Chapter 14: Transferable nil rate bands Chapter 15: The family home and the residence nil rate band Chapter 16: Pre-owned assets
