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July 17th, 2025

THE LOAN ARRANGERS (PART ONE) – A TALE OF TWO REMUNERATION TRUSTS

THIS ARTICLE WAS ALSO PUBLISHED IN TAXATION MAGAZINE HERE. INTRODUCTION When I first started writing this article, I was going to look at two quite different tax schemes which had some interesting similarities. The cases were MR Curell v HMRC[1] (“Currell”), a Baxendale-Walker (“BW”) remuneration trust and The Executors of Mrs Leslie Vivienne Elborne Deceased […]

March 13th, 2025

“Magic Bean your cares away… Worries for another day?

“Dance your cares away… …worries for another day.” A great mantra from the Fraggles and one which someone like me, who catastrophises daily about all manner of things, should probably take on board[1]. Let’s all be more Fraggle. But, only to a point. You see, when it comes to tax and investment planning that approach […]

June 1st, 2024

A moment of your time…

I will now post my assorted ramblings on my new website, Breaking Tax. Thank you for your attention on this site over the last couple of years. Hope to see you on the other side Cheers Andy