Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Autumn 2023 #192In March 2007 Safe Investments Management UK (Safe), an unlimited company, transferred its shares in Gooch Investment (Gooch) to Equity Trust (BVI) Ltd, a trust company (2007 transfer), to be held on the terms of a settlement for the benefit of qualifying employees of Safe (First Staff Remuneration Trust). This transfer followed the transfer of interests in UK business assets (the estate) from the first and second appellants (Mr and Mrs Bhaur) to Safe and from Safe to its subsidiary Gooch. All these transfers took place as part of a tax scheme (scheme) promoted by Mr O’Toole, who operate...
Wills & Trusts Law Reports | Spring 2021 #182The claimant as one of the executors and trustees of the estate of Dame Zaha Hadid deceased, who died in 2016, brought proceedings under s50 of the Administration of Estates Act 1985 for the removal of the first to third defendants, the claimant’s co-executors and co-trustees. The claimant and the first to third defendants had had great difficulty working together in the administration of the deceased’s estate. By the time of the hearing an agreement had been reached between the parties.
Pursuant to that agreement, an employee benefit trust (EBT) was to be declar...
Deborah Clark and Matthew Short give an update on HMRC’s stance on tax and employee benefit trusts ‘In an attempt to avoid the delaying effect of the CTA 2009 provisions, family benefit trusts have been created that specifically exclude employees but include their families.’This article comments on HMRC’s Brief 18/11, which gives its views on …
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