Publication Date 10 December 2014 How to reduce your inheritance tax liability Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item Do you understand inheritance tax, and how it can be reduced? Danny Cox, chartered financial planner at Hargreaves Lansdown, explains.
Publication Date 10 December 2014 Directors' wrongdoing suspected in 30% of insolvency cases Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item Company bosses in almost a third of insolvency cases are referred to the Insolvency Service's disqualification unit for unfit conduct, according to research.
Publication Date 10 December 2014 Tax-free ISAs to be passed to surviving spouses Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item ISAs will no longer be liable for tax when inherited by spouses from April 2015, the chancellor, George Osborne, has announced in his autumn statement.
Publication Date 9 December 2014 Exclusive tour of The National Archives and user panel discussion Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item
Publication Date 3 December 2014 Hall of fame: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item Elizabeth Garrett Anderson achieved many firsts for British women. She was the first woman to qualify as a physician and surgeon, the co-founder of the first hospital to be staffed by women, and the first woman to be appointed as a mayor and a magistrate.
Publication Date 26 November 2014 Informal corporate insolvency procedures increase Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item The latest figures from the insolvency specialist R3 show that the number of firms opting to be removed from Companies House records has increased by 28% since 2010.
Publication Date 26 November 2014 The Gazette hall of fame: Peter Blake Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item Peter Blake is a British pop artist, perhaps best known for co-creating the sleeve for the Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.
Publication Date 26 November 2014 This month in history: the Boston Tea Party Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against British taxation that took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on 16 December 1773.
Publication Date 26 November 2014 Over a million cohabitants stand to inherit nothing Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item The Law Society has warned that more than a million unmarried couples who are not in a civil partnership will inherit nothing if their partner dies without a will.
Publication Date 26 November 2014 World War 1: the Christmas truce of December 1914 Share this Link to this item Share this item to Facebook Share this item to LinkedIn Tweet this item Google+ this item The war had been raging for four months and three weeks. But on Christmas Eve 1914, the guns suddenly fell silent, as many German and British soldiers put down their weapons to extend the hand of friendship.