How do I deal with the super-basement ruining my life?
The very public objection of Brian May, the Queen guitarist, last week to the trend for basement extensions in Kensington…
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When is it right to stop supporting a charity?
Before my kids started school, I received some excellent advice from a friend. You will go through a love-hate relationship…
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How even well intended actions without legal backup can go awry
Henry Fielding wrote in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, ‘It is not enough that your designs, nay that…
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All you need to know on the UK’s HNW investor visa scheme
The UK actively encourages investment from overseas, which naturally results in the increase of high net worth individuals from outside…
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How can I avoid paying inheritance tax on my home?
Headlines about UK house price inflation abound. The English Land Registry has reported a 5.6 per cent average annual house…
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For new wealth, head to Yorkshire or Hampshire
Author: Chloe Barrow CAPITAL OUTFLOW While the country debates the merits of spending £50 billion on HS2, which will cut…
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How to avoid ending up in jail when doing up your listed building
When considering making changes to a listed building, whether medieval castle or Victorian terrace, it is imperative that you are…
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Americans coming to Britain must beware a tax nightmare
As a passionate American Anglophile, you step off the plane at Heathrow excited about spending the summer in the UK.…
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How to make sure your charitable donation goes further
The purpose of Community First has been to encourage more philanthropy in the UK. Our research, published in the ‘Shine…
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Bankers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
1 May is probably not a date many Spear’s readers will know well. Traditionally celebrated by the labouring classes, International…
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People in glass houses should not complain about invasions of privacy (or walk around naked)
WINDOW PAINS An Englishman’s home is his castle. Unless, that is, he lives in a new apartment in Central London…
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What is the law when parents abduct their children?
On 1 April 2014 Japan formally acceded to the Hague Convention on international child abduction. Japan had been subject to…
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What form could the proposed Mansion Tax take?
Discussion of a so called mansion or wealth tax is a hot topic among private wealth practitioners at present. The…
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How philanthropists can help to solve Britain’s food-bank shame
The news that nearly one million people, including over 330,000 children, were supported by a food bank last year hit…
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How can hard-hit hedge funds still justify hefty fees?
HEDGE TRIMMERS By the 1990s, wrote Sebastian Mallaby in his book More Money than God, ‘the hedge-fund titans were the…
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How the legalisation of pre-nups will help protect offshore trusts
Offshore trusts can enable family wealth to benefit future generations and remain a popular succession-planning vehicle for wealthy families. Wherever…
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HMRC is in the hot seat as anti-avoidance looks set to get tougher
Tax reliefs are an essential part of the tax system. They can be used as a mechanism to redistribute wealth,…
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Worker killed on multi million pound Grosvenor Square construction site
A tragic death occurred yesterday on the construction site of a £250 million mansion at 20 Grosvenor Square. According to…
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What the UK could learn from Jamaica’s economical approach – including how to smile more
I’ve recently come back from my honeymoon in Jamaica. The last time I was on the island was four years…
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Jamaica is a country which punches, and certainly runs, way above its weight. The island’s struggle to re-invent itself after…
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