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Trust Practitioner's Handbook, 4th Edition

Trust Practitioner's Handbook, 4th Edition

Author: Gill Steel
Publisher: Law Society Publishing
ISBN: 9781784460839

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781907698071
Published In: January 2018
Format: Paperback , 450 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Trusts can provide clients with solutions to a wide variety of objectives, from protecting assets tominimising exposure to tax. This book gives you comprehensive guidance to enable you to:

consider each client's objectives
identify the applicable tax treatment
select the most appropriate trust, and
create an effective trust.

The guidance is supplemented by a set of tools and features including practice points, examples, tables,checklists, forms and figures that help you to understand the administrative techniques for the main typesof trust and to avoid potential negligence claims and tax penalties.

The author also presents a clear and accessible account of the taxation of trusts, which unravels thecomplex provisions relating to IHT, CGT and income tax to give you a sound grip on the application oftax to the administration of trusts and the confidence to explain its effects on the settlor, the trustees andthe beneficiaries.

The third edition of this popular book takes account of all relevant changes since 2008 with expandedand new coverage of pilot trusts and settler interested trusts. The accompanying FREE CD-ROM containsa range of useful forms and checklists that can be customised to suit the needs of your practice.

Part 1 - Setting up a trust: 1. Why have a trust?;
2. Creating a trust;
3. Trustees;
Part 2 - Administering the trust: 4. Getting started;
5. Administration implications of the Trustee Act 2000;
6. Trustees' decision making;
7. Financial services;
Part 3 - Taxation of trusts: 8. Introduction to taxation of trusts;
9. Inheritance tax;
10. Capital gains tax;
11. Income tax;
12. Trusts with a disabled and/or vulnerable beneficiary;
Part 4 - Practical trusts: 13. Dealing with various events;
14. Nil rate band discretionary trust debt or charge scheme;
15. Managing an efficient and profitable practice;
16. Information technology;
Appendices.

Gill Steel is a sole practitioner and proprietor of the Lawskills know-how, training and consultancy servicefor private client practitioners. She is also a freelance consultant, lecturer and trainer. Gill is a member ofthe Law Society's Wills and Equity Committee, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) UKPractice Committee and the Association of Taxation Technicians.