Four countries that slash non-dom IHT bills
Four countries have long-established tax treaties that give UK-non-doms from these jurisdictions a hugely advantageous opportunity to minimise paying inheritance tax on their worldwide assets.
Four countries have long-established tax treaties that give UK-non-doms from these jurisdictions a hugely advantageous opportunity to minimise paying inheritance tax on their worldwide assets.
UK Government coffers could shrink by £5bn ($6.7bn, €5.7bn) if the rising numbers of non-doms thinking about leaving the UK permanently go through with it, accountancy firm Moore Stephens has found.
The latest UK Finance Bill has not included a ban on pensions cold calling but has reduced the non-domicile threshold and implemented cuts to the money purchase annual and tax-free dividend allowances.
New rules for the taxation of non-domiciles are likely to come into force this month, back-dated to take effect from 6 April.
Non-domiciled taxpayers in the UK contributed £9.3bn ($12bn, €10bn) in tax receipts in fiscal year 2014/15, data released by HM Revenue & Customs shows.
The UK government has announced it will introduce long-anticipated changes to the rules governing non-UK domiciles “as soon as possible”, after they were postponed earlier this year because of the snap election.
Ongoing delays to the introduction of new rules governing how UK non-domiciles are taxed could be “disastrous” for taxpayers who have already prepared for the changes, which were expected to come into force in April this year.
The UK new non-dom rules which were dramatically dropped from the government’s finance bill has left those who prepared for those changes “in a very difficult position”, says Paul Thompson, tax and estate planning consultant at Canada Life.
UK taxpayers will now face a period of uncertainty after new non-domicile rules and inheritance tax changes to UK residential properties were dropped from the Finance Bill at the last minute, according to industry experts.
The UK government has delayed the introduction of long-awaited changes to the rules governing non-UK domiciles, which were set to go live earlier this month.
UK chancellor Philip Hammond has put on hold some significant changes relating to IHT, deemed domicile rules, and life insurance policies due to the snap election in June, that will impact the international advice market.
British prime minister Theresa May has called a snap election on 8 June, a decision which may have a knock-on effect on some of the new measures announced in the Spring Budget last month. Here’s a list of proposals which could either be rushed through or delayed as the UK prepares to go to the…