A Practitioner's Guide to Trusts

Download or read book A Practitioner's Guide to Trusts written by John Thurston and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practitioner's Guide to Trusts is a step-by-step guide to all the practical aspects of trust law. Written by an expert and highly respected author, this handbook provides practical information that is as useful to accountants and trust practitioners as it is to lawyers.Written by an expert and highly respected author, this handbook provides practical information that is as useful to accountants and trust practitioners as it is to lawyers. It has been fully updated and revised to take into account the latest Finance Act.KEY FEATURES:Includes changes to IHT treatment of trusts subject to the relevant property regime (simplification of the calculation of IHT charges on trusts at ten-yearly intervals or when assets are transferred out of the trust);Expanded analysis on income tax and CGT treatment of trusts;The book has been designed to make key information easy to find and assimilate and includes signposts to provide useful summaries and focus points to highlight important issues;Case law includes the IHT Pawson holiday let case (28 Jan 2013).Includes coverage of the following areas:Breach of trust;Capital Gains Trust and second residences;Income tax and settlor interested trusts;Ownership of house (Jones v Kernott);Ownership of monies in joint bank account;Proprietary estoppel;Removal of trustees;Severance of joint tenancy.Previous edition ISBN: 9781847667687