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Conference Date: Thursday, 15 May 2025
Venue: Lord’s Cricket Ground

Conference Programme

  • 8:30 am -  
    Registration and Coffee
  • 9:30 am - Alun James 
    Introduction and chair's opening address
  • 9:40 am - Emma Chamberlain 
    Capital Taxes Update
    • Case law update including on home loans, APR / BPR, mistake and EBTs
    • Maximising APR / BPR in the light of the recent changes and reducing risks of challenge to claims on death and into trust
    • Implications of the October 2024 budget changes for IHT including APR / BPR, the use of trusts and EBTs
    • Lifetime giving strategies including normal expenditure out of income and the family home
  • 10:40 am -  
    Coffee Break
  • 11:00 am - Deborah Clark 
    FICs – an update, how they have evolved and their future
    • Current trends on structure
    • Review of how they are used in practice
    • Valuation issues and tactics to help
    • Privacy & protection
  • 12:00 pm - Emma Chamberlain 
    Non-doms and new residents post April 2025 everything you need to know (but were afraid to ask)
    • New income tax and CGT rules for new arrivers
    • IHT changes to trusts and the importance of the Ming Vase for transitional rules
    • Funding ten year and exit charges
    • IHT, residence and the tail – how does it work?
  • 1:00 pm -  
    Lunch
  • 2:00 pm - Katherine Bullock 
    Pensions and the proposed changes: a guide for the bewildered
    • A practical tax guide to the pension changes
    • The IHT implications and what to do about them
    • Taking the tax-free lump sum: should you; shouldn’t you?
    • What if nothing happens? When and how to prepare
  • 3:00 pm -  
    Coffee Break
  • 3:20 pm - Alun James 
    Tax Cases Update
  • 4:20 pm - Katherine Bullock 
    CGT changes: what the Chancellor did next
    • 2025 property tax changes
    • The implications of the CGT rate increases
    • CGT anti-forestalling quirks
    • Main residence relief - an update and a review of recent cases
    • What next and how best to prepare
  • 5:20 pm - Alun James 
    Chair’s closing remarks and final questions
  • 5:30 pm -  
    Conference Close

DELEGATE FEES

For payments received by 22/03/2025

£650 + vat per delegate

...or book 4 places for the price of 3

For payments received after 22/03/2025

£700 + vat per delegate

...or book 4 places for the price of 3

This conference is fully booked.

Please contact us at info@longmark.co.uk if you wish to join the waiting list

Chairman & Speaker
Alun James
Temple Tax Chambers

Speaker Biography - Alun James


Alun advises on all direct taxes in a business context, as well as SDLT and VAT.

Much of his practice is advisory, whether planning, transaction-based or assisting in relation to disputes with HMRC. Typically instructions come by email and are discussed in conference or by phone. He then settles a note of the advice given.

Litigation is also undertaken, usually at FTT/UT level.

Alun seeks always to develop a good working relationship with his clients. Many are in contact on a regular basis, sometimes just to talk a possible matter through, as well as for specific advice. Alun believes that the better our professional clients understand what we do, and the benefits we can provide, the better the end product.

He has been in practice since 1988 and is also a member of Exchange Chambers in Liverpool and Manchester.

Visit Temple Tax website

Speaker Biography
Speakers
Emma Chamberlain OBE
Pump Court Tax Chambers

Speaker Biography - Emma Chamberlain OBE

Emma Chamberlain specialises in tax and trust advice for private clients, trusts and charities. Her practice is focused particularly on IHT and CGT as well as advising foreign domiciliaries and trustees. She frequently advises on taxation issues in connection with divorce and family issues, on BPR and APR and on residence, remittance and domicile enquiries.

Emma regularly writes for Tax Journal, Private Client Business, Tax Adviser and British Tax Review. Articles include an analysis of the reservation of benefit provisions in Tax Journal, IHT reform, and an analysis of the Finance Bill 2020 provisions.

In 2020 she was one of the three co-authors of the final report produced by the Wealth Tax Commission on whether an annual or one-off wealth tax was feasible for the UK.

Visit the Pump Tax website

Speaker Biography
Deborah Clark
Mills & Reeve

Speaker Biography - Deborah Clark

Deborah specialises in assisting clients with their estate planning, helping to protect and control the succession of family wealth. Her work covers advising on the full range of private client matters from tax-efficient, flexible and protective Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney and dealing with complex estates, to lifetime planning with trusts, Family Investment Companies and preparation of family charters.

The breadth of Deborah’s experience has helped her to advise clients on multi-generational planning, using a range of different structures to suit her client’s circumstances. Deborah’s tax knowledge helps her to combine tax planning with traditional estate planning, creating innovative solutions, such as her work on Family Investment Companies, which Deborah developed back in 2006. Her corporate experience means she can also assist with advising on the best governance structure for family enterprises. She regularly assists her clients with advice on the structure of their articles of association and shareholders’ agreements, to ensure that they meet the family’s overall objectives.

Visit the Mills & Reeve website

Speaker Biography
Katherine Bullock
St Katharine’s Chambers

Speaker Biography - Katherine Bullock

Katherine is an expert tax barrister, in practice at her own chambers, St Katharine’s, with a particular focus on private clients and their businesses.

As the past editor of the definitive practitioners’ text on land taxation, she is regularly asked to advise on property transactions.

She has an MA in Law from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Tax Adviser, member of STEP, a Chartered Financial Planner and Certified Family Business Adviser.

Recognised as one of the ‘Most Influential Private Client Advisers’ in the UK in 2013, 2014 and 2018 and “50 Top Tax Advisers” in 2018, she has over 25 years’ experience in supporting accountants, solicitors and tax advisers to solve complex tax problems.

Prior to practice, Katherine was a senior tax partner with two Big 4 professional services firms, first as the UK head of private client services at PwC and then as head of private client services for EMEIA at EY.

Visit stkatharines.com

Speaker Biography

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Full details of the speakers and topics for this conference will be posted as soon as they are finalised. Normally 4-5 weeks before the conference date.

Delegates will receive a comprehensive set of notes to take away and will have the opportunity to ask questions of any of the speakers both on the day and in advance of the conference. This conference will provide 6 hours CPD / CPE and will offer the chance to network with other local senior tax professionals.

This conference features a “4 for the price of 3” offer so that key members of your tax team can attend and hear the latest ideas first-hand.

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