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    International Wealth Structuring

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    The International Wealth Structuring team at Healys offers a full bespoke service to high-net -worth individuals and their families. As part of the international team’s mandate, they help successful families and entrepreneurs protect their assets.

    The team offers a wide range of advice on all aspects of wealth structuring. This can involve using international and domestic trusts in both local and offshore jurisdictions.

    Our experts of over 20 years’ experience are able to advise you on where is best to protect your assets and the necessary tax reporting on your wealth if you enter the UK on a temporary basis for visits for work, business or other reasons, or should you and your family decide to remain there permanently.

    Most of our clients are foreign nationals that have entered the UK using the Tier 1 Investor/ Entrepreneur visa and are planning to secure their wealth and pass it on to future generations.

    Whether or not they or their families choose to remain, many of our clients acquire properties in the UK. Recent changes to a number of the tax rules presents challenges as regards structuring the property purchase in the most tax-effective and beneficial manner for clients and their families.

    Our team is on hand to guide you through the red tape and give you practical and commercially sound advice that is tailored to your situation. The team can advise on the most tax-efficient way of protecting and growing your wealth.

    For more information on our services or to have a free consultation please contact one of the team on 020 7822 4000 / 01273 685 888 or email international@healys.com

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    • Inheritance tax and offshore estate planning advice in the context of a foreign domiciled businessman having disposed of his UK business to international purchasers and claiming UK entrepreneur’s relief on the gain for capital gains tax
    • Advice to South American clients to acquire a London residential property structured to avoid inheritance tax, capital gains tax and annual tax on enveloped dwellings and restructure of UK investment properties through an offshore structure to avoid inheritance tax
    • Advice regarding creation of offshore trust for UK family of Italian parents consequent upon tax disclosures between Italy and Switzerland in relation to family investments held in Switzerland
    • Co-ordinate international offshore structures for wealthy South African family whose members have moved to the Australia, the US and Canada
    • Co-ordinate the offshore structuring for the international textile business of a wealthy Indian family, including licensing of international brands, repatriation of a particular brand to India with a view to Indian listing, and international development of another well known fashion brand involving offshore holding and licensing entities
    • Advice regarding divestment of US investor in a South African food conglomerate, restructure of existing Jersey trust structures involving Dutch “Co-op” and Antilles holding structure, and disposal of part of the South African business under the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) programme
    • Advice relative to a number of US foreign grantor trusts for heads of families with children and relatives in the US to avoid US tax on income, future “step- up” basis to avoid tax on historical gains and tie in with US family perpetual trust and estate planning
    • Advice regarding a purpose trust structure to hold resort properties in Thailand as part of commercial joint venture holiday concept similar to timeshare for UK and US joint venture partners
    • Advice relative to restructure and rationalisation of Jersey trusts for Singaporean high net worth family with a view to creation of private trust company/ family office structure
    • Working with US tax lawyers to interpose a purpose trust structure holding a finance company between existing Jersey Trust and US trust structures requiring funding to develop US shopping complexes and commercial property
    • Advice relating to the creation of unitised property trusts in Jersey (JPUT) and Guernsey (GPUT) for international commercial property investments in the UK
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    • Spring Budget 2021 Change ‘Generation Rent to Generation Buy’

      3rd March 2021

      In a bid to keep the UK economy stable, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces new plans to support home buyers

      During today’s Spring Budget announcement, the chancellor confirmed that he would boost support for home buyers through a mortgage guarantee.

      Several major lenders including Natwest, Lloyds, Barclays, Santander and HSBC have agreed to provide 95% mortgages to home buyers in return for a government guarantee on those mortgages.

      Low-deposit mortgage accessibility has declined since the pandemic started, which has made home-ownership unreachable for many. But the government hopes that these plans will give more people the support and opportunity to buy their own homes.

      It was also announced that the Stamp Duty Land Tax holiday in England and Northern Ireland will be extended for purchases up to £500,000 until the 30th June, meaning home buyers avoid the stamp duty levy on purchases under that amount. After this date, the starting rate of Stamp Duty will be £250,000 until the end of September, before returning to the previous level of £125,000.

      Daniel Winslow, Partner and Head of Leasehold Services at Healys LLP comments:

      “In the end then the announcement was largely as anticipated, but for perhaps a few additional reveals here and there. In my view extending the SDLT holiday will provide a much needed crutch for the economy to rest its weight whilst its other limbs scramble for footing as we move out of lockdown. The tapering back of the SDLT thresholds is also an interesting development and one which I am in favour of. Suddenly stopping the SDLT holiday (whether at the end of March or the end of June) would have almost certainly lead to a shock to the market and to the economy as a whole. By delaying and then tapering back the SDLT limit (and introducing the 95% mortgages) the government clearly hopes to either stop that from happening completely or at least turn that cliff edge many have been talking about into a downward hill to an eventual (hopefully high) plateau. If property transactions do decline then by the time we all get to that plateau the economy will hopefully be ready to throw away its crutch and start running!

      “In terms of the 95% mortgages, I think this is an excellent introduction, provided of course it is done safely. It will give many perfectly worthy potential homeowners the chance to achieve their dreams where previously they would have been priced out of the market. Much talk has been made of a lack of housing stock, but when has there ever been enough housing? Also, who says only the cash rich should be entitled to be homeowners? I think it helps provide a level playing field, and it is one that I am all for.”

      Healys LLP are award winning conveyancing solicitors based in London, Brighton & Sussex. Our conveyancing solicitors have a vast amount of experience in property law and we deal with all aspects, including the purchases & sales of homes, freeholds, leaseholds, shared ownership schemes, remortgaging, lease extensions and more. For more legal updates or legal advice, please visit Healys LLP’s website.

       

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