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Topic: Update on using structures to hold UK real estate
Speakers: Emily Osborne and Alice Vink of Stephenson Harwood LLP
Presentation Summary
Emily and Alice will recap the recent changes to the ownership of UK real estate by non-UK resident individuals and structures, explain the 2020 tax changes and provide a general overview of whether it still makes sense to use a structure to hold UK land.
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If a Guernsey resident individual makes a NR CGT loss ....and then he moves to live in the UK ...can the loss be utilised against all capital gains made when he is UK resident .
How does the SDLT holiday affect overseas buyers of UK property?
How has COVID affected residence tests, if at all?
Re slide 22 ..if the non-resident company is liquidated are there two reportable gains?
1/ the company files a CT return, 2/the owner has to file a NR CGT return ...or is the company not property rich at the point of winding up?
Are there any advantages to continuing to hold residential property by a nominee?