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Morton Fraser acts for many clients in preparing their annual tax returns and advising on tax saving opportunities as part of dealing with that...

While a number of the measures introduced in the Autumn Statement were not unexpected, what does appear to have crept in under the radar, is a change...

Included in the Autumn Statement was confirmation of the changes to the CGT legislation to bring non residents into the scope of UK CGT. Currently, a...

Legislation will be introduced in the Finance Bill 2014 to prevent a charity from being entitled to claim tax relief if one of the main purposes of...

The government has announced its intention to introduce a scheme to allow pensioners to top up their additional state pension by paying a new class...

The state pension featured in the Autumn Statement with the announcement that the age at which an individual will be entitled to receive their state...

Oprah Winfrey has never been afraid to speak out when it comes to issues of race. While promoting her upcoming film The Butler, which explores...

The commercial property market in Scotland is finishing 2013 with a bit of a transactional flourish after what could be described as a satisfactorily...

A pre-Christmas blog is probably as good a place as any to look at the law behind selling online. It's not the most exciting topic but millions of...

There's nothing like squeaking in at the last minute, so here's my November blog, published on the afternoon of the last working day of the month...

With the increasing costs of tertiary education and living costs in general, it is more important than ever to start saving at a young age. There are...

More than a few years ago, when I commenced in practice, the twenty to twenty five year full repairing and insuring Lease was the norm. All...

Most of us have spent time imagining what it would be like to win the lottery… a speed boat perhaps or maybe a private jet. It's likely that a big...

For many years (indeed for most of my professional career) landlords have rarely had to deal with an insolvency/irritancy situation or if they did...

From the title of this blog, it might sound as though my first couple of months as a trainee don’t differ much from my years as a student. But...

A London based company, Compromise Agreements Ltd, is seeking a judicial review of the compensation cap of one year's salary in unfair dismissal...

My years at Morton Fraser were as a property solicitor. I didn’t expect to like conveyancing – but the conciliatory nature of the work suited me. It...

Scam (skam) slang, n. a fraudulent business scheme; a swindle

Scam (skam) slangn. a fraudulent business scheme; a swindle As cyber-crime continues to become ever more sophisticated, even Companies House has...