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<big>[https://www.kessler.co.uk James Kessler's] ''Private Client Taxation'' aims to set out a comprehensive discussion of private client taxation.  Discussion includes:
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# Taxation of foreign domiciliaries
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# Income Tax, CGT and IHT on individuals and trusts
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# Taxation of non-residents on UK income and assets
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# The territorial limits of UK tax (now based on residence, situs and source)
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# Taxation of UK residents on foreign income and assets
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# Other topics arising in this context, including tax avoidance, disclosure and compliance
  
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It is the online version of [https://www.kessler.co.uk/taxation-of-foreign-domiciliaries/ ''Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries''] by [https://www.kessler.co.uk James Kessler QC].   
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This is a wide subject, or set of subjects, but in taxation, as in life, everything is connected.
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''PCT Online'' is the successor to ''Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries''. The reforms of the FA 2025, which one might summarise as the abolition of domicile, required a new title.  But the approach of this work is unaltered.
  
 
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'''[[Update]]'''
  
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[[Introduction]]
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:1  [[Foreign Domicile: Tax Policy]]
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:''[[Dedication]]''
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Mobile Individuals Policy & Avoidance</span>'''''
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:3  [[Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rules (TAARs)]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Residence</span>'''''
  
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:6  [[Residence of Companies]]
  
 
:7  [[Treaty-Residence]]
 
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:8  [[Exit Taxes]]
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:8  [[Split Years]]
  
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:9 [[Split Years: Arrival and Departure]]
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:9   [[Temporary Non-residence]]
  
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:10  [[Temporary Non-residence]]
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:10  [[Exit Taxes]]
  
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:11 [[Source/Relevant Foreign Income]] [tba]
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:11 [[UK Arrival or Departure: Tax Checklist]]
  
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:11  [[The Remittance Basis]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Income Tax: Principles</span>'''''
  
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:12  [[The Meaning of Remittance]]
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:14  [[Income Recognition: Receive/Entitled/Arise/Paid]]
  
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:15  [[Income Categories and Sources]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">FIG Relief: TRF & Former Remittance Basis</span>'''''
  
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:17 [[Trading in Land]]
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:16 [[Temporary Repatriation Facility]]
  
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:17 [[The Remittance Basis]]
  
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:18 [[Remittance Reliefs]]
  
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:20 [[Deduction of interest from Property Income]]
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:19 [[Mixed Funds]]
  
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Income by Category</span>'''''
  
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:22 [[Exempt Interest of Non-Residents]]
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:21 [[Cessations & Trading Stock]]
  
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:22 [[Trading in Land]]
  
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:23 [[Performers]]
  
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:24 [[Property Income]]
  
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:25 [[Deduction of interest from Property Income]]
  
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:28 [[PAYE]]
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:26 [[Interest Income]]
  
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:29 [[Employment Income: DT Relief]]
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:27 [[Exempt Interest of Non-Residents]]
  
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:30 [[Pension and Annuity Income]]
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:28 [[Accrued Income Profits]]
  
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:31 [[Discretionary Trusts: Income Tax]]
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:29 [[Deeply Discounted Securities]]
  
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:32 [[IIP Trusts: Income Tax]]
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:30 [[Dividend Income]]
  
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:33 [[Settlor-interested Trust Code]]
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:31 [[Corporation Tax on Company Distributions]]  
  
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:34 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Introduction]]
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:32 [[Annual Payments]]
  
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:35 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Transferors]]
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:33 [[Intellectual Property Income]]
  
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:36 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Benefits]]
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:34 [[Misc Sweep-Up Income]]
  
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:37  [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Relief from Overlapping Charges]]
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:38 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Motive Defence]]
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:35 [[Employment Income]]
  
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:39 [[Life Policies and Contracts]]
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:40 [[Offshore Funds: Definition]]
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:37 [[PAYE]]
  
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:41 [[Offshore Income Gains]]
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:38 [[Disguised Remuneration/Trading Income]]
  
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:42 [[Income from Offshore Funds]]
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:39 [[Employment Income: DT Relief]]
  
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:43 [[Accrued Income Profits]]
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:40 [[Benefit in Kind: Family Home and Chattels]]
  
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:44 [[Deeply Discounted Securities]]
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:41 [[Loans from Companies]]
  
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:45  [[Unit Trusts]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">IT: General</span>'''''
  
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:46 [[Intermediated Securities]]
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:42 [[Discretionary Trusts: Income Tax]]
  
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:47 [[Partnerships]]
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:43 [[IIP Trusts: Income Tax]]
  
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:48 [[Non-Residents Income Tax Relief]]
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:44 [[Rates of Income Tax/CGT/CT]]
  
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:48 [[Claims]]
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:45 [[Personal Allowances]]
  
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:49 [[Collection of Tax from UK Representatives]]
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:46 [[Non-Resident Income Tax Relief]]
  
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:50 [[Investment Manager Exemptions]]
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:47 [[National Insurance Contributions]]
  
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:51  [[Investment Management Fees & Carried Interest]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">IT Avoidance Codes</span>'''''
  
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:52 [[Loans from Non-Resident Companies]]
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:48 [[Settlor-interested Trust Code]]
  
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:52A [[Transactions in Securities]]
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:49  [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Introduction]]
  
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:53 [[Rates of Tax]]
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:50 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Transferors]]
  
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:54 [[Personal Allowances]]
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:51 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Benefits]]
  
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:55 [[National Insurance Contributions]]
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:52 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Relief from Overlapping Charges]]
  
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:56 [[Gains of UK Residents]]
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:53 [[Transfer of Assets Abroad: Motive Defence]]
  
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:57 [[Gains of Non-Resident Settlor-Interested Trusts: s.86]]
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:54 [[Pre-2025 Protected Trust Income]]
  
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:58 [[Capital Payments from Non-Resident Trusts: s.87]]
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:55 [[Profit Fragmentation]]
  
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:59 [[Borrowing by Non-resident Trust: Sch 4B]]
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:56 [[Transfer of Income Streams]]
  
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:60 [[Protected Trust Reliefs]]
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:57 [[Transactions in Securities]]
  
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:61  [[Sub-Funds]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Capital Gains Tax</span>'''''
  
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:62 [[Gains of Non-Resident Companies]]
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:58 [[Chargeable Gains]]
  
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:63 [[Capital Losses]]
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:59 [[UK Property Held by Non-Residents]]
  
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:64  [[Foreign Currency Issues]]
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:60 [[Hold-over Relief]]
  
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:65  [[Unremittable Assets]]
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:61 [[Liquidation of Companies]]
  
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:66 [[Double Taxation Arrangements: Introduction]]
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:62 [[Reorganisations]]
  
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:67 [[DTA Anti-abuse Rules]]
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:63 [[Residential Property: CGT]]
  
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:68 [[Foreign Tax Credit Relief]]
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:64 [[Gains of Non-Resident Settlor-Interested Trusts: s.86]]
  
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:69 [[EU Law and UK Taxation]]
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:65 [[Capital Payments from Non-Resident Trusts: s.87 Code]]
  
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:70 [[Excluded Property: Definition]]
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:66 [[Borrowing by Non-Resident Trust: Sch 4B]]
  
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:71 [[Excluded Property Exemptions]]
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:67 [[Sub-Funds]]
  
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:72 [[Wills and IOVs]]
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:68 [[Gains of Non-Resident Companies]]
  
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:73 [[Reservation of Benefit]]
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:69 [[Capital Losses]]
  
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:74  [[Inter-Trust Transfers: IHT]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Funds</span>'''''
  
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:75 [[IHT Deduction for Debts]]
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:70 [[Funds: Terms & Concepts]]
  
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:76 [[IHT Double Taxation Treaties: Introduction]]
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:71 [[Offshore Income Gains]]
  
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:77 [[IHT DTAs: India, Pakistan, Italy, France]]
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:72 [[Income from Offshore Funds]]
  
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:78 [[IHT DTA: USA]]
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:73 [[Unit Trusts & Transparent Funds]]
  
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:79 [[IHT DTA: Switzerland]]
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:74 [[Life Policies and Contracts]]
  
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:80 [[IHT DTA: Netherlands]]
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:75 [[Intermediated Securities]]
  
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:81  [[Foreign IHT Credit Relief]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Investment Management</span>'''''
  
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:82 [[Non-dom/Non-resident Spouse]]
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:76 [[Investment Manager Exemptions]]
  
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:83 [[Private Residence Relief]]
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:77 [[Carried Interest/Investment Management Fees: Introduction]]
  
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:84 [[Residential Property of Non-Residents: NRCGT]]
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:78 [[Carried Interest]]
  
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:85 [[Family Home and Chattels: Benefit in Kind Charges]]
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:79 [[Investment Management Fees]]
  
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:86  [[ATED Taxes]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Inheritance Tax</span>'''''
  
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:87 [[Residential property: IHT]]
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:80 [[IHT Terms and Concepts]]
  
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:88 [[Pre-Owned Assets]]
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:81 [[Normal Expenditure Relief]]
  
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:89 [[Joint Accounts]]
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:82 [[Excluded Property: Definition]]
  
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:90 [[Estates of Deceased Persons: CGT]]
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:83 [[Excluded Property Exemptions]]
  
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:91 [[Estates of Deceased Persons: Income Tax]]
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:84 [[Wills and IOVs]]
  
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:92 [[Who is the Settlor?]]
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:85 [[Reservation of Benefit]]
  
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:93 [[Trusts with Two or More Settlors]]
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:86 [[Inter-Trust Transfers: IHT]]
  
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:94 [[Situs of Assets for IHT]]
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:87 [[IHT Treatment of Debts]]
  
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:95 [[Situs of Assets for CGT]]
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:88 [[IHT Close-Company Code]]
  
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:96 [[Foreign Entities]]
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:89 [[IHT Residential-Property Code]]
  
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:97 [[Hybrid Entities]]
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:90 [[Pre-Owned Assets]]
  
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:98  [[Control Connected Close and Related Expressions]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Partnerships</span>'''''
  
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:99 [[Permanent Establishment and Branch/Agency]]
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:91 [[Partnerships]]
  
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:100 [[Reporting and Compliance]]
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:92 [[Partnership Income: Allocation]]
  
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:101 [[Reporting and compliance: IHT]]
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:93 [[Salaried Members Code]]
  
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:NEW [[Reporting Beneficial Owners]]
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:94  [[Partnerships CGT]]
  
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:102 [[Disclosure of Offshore Trusts]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Entities</span>'''''
  
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:NEW [[Requirement to Correct]]
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:95  [[Settlement, Bare Trust, and Associated Terminology]]
  
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:103 [[Criminal Law and Professional Conduct]]
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:96 [[Estates of Deceased Persons: CGT]]
  
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<big>'''Appendices'''</big>
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:97  [[Estates of Deceased Persons: Income Tax]]
  
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:[[Appendix 1: Common Expressions]] Part 1
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:98  [[Foreign Entities]]
  
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:[[Appendix 1: Family Terminology]] Part 2
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:99  [[Hybrid Entities]]
  
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:[[Appendix 2: Consideration, Arm's Length/Full Value]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Pensions & Employment Benefit Trusts</span>'''''
  
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:[[Appendix 3: Associated Operations: IHT]]
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:100  [[Pension and Annuity Income]]
  
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:[[Appendix 4: Construction of Deeming Provisions]]
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:101  [[Employer-Financed Retirement Benefits Scheme]]
  
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:[[Appendix 5: What Do We Mean by "Real"?]]
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:102  [[Pension IHT]]
  
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:[[Appendix 6: Parliamentarians]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Topics Affecting More Than One Tax</span>'''''
  
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:[[Appendix 7: Visiting Forces]]
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:103 [[Non-Resident Spouse]]
  
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:[[Appendix 8: How to Improve Residence and Domicile Taxation]]
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:104 [[Joint Accounts]]
  
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:105 [[Foreign Currency Issues]]
  
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:106 [[Cryptoassets]]
  
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:107 [[Unremittable Assets]]
  
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:108 [[ATED and SDLT]]
  
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:109 [[Who is the Settlor?]]
  
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:110 [[Multiple Settlors]]
  
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:111 [[Statutory Tax Indemnities]]
  
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<big>'''New 2019/20 edition out soon'''</big>
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:112 [[Situs of Assets for IHT]]
  
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:113 [[Situs of Assets for CGT]]
  
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:114 [[Control Connected Close and Related Expressions]]
  
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:115 [[Participation, % Investment & Material Interest Tests]]
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:116 [[Permanent Establishment]]
  
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Double Taxation Agreements: IT/CGT</span>'''''
  
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:117 [[Double Taxation Arrangements: Introduction]]
  
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:119 [[Third Party Relief/Savings Clause]]
  
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:120 [[Limitation on Benefits]]
  
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:121[[Credit for Foreign Tax]]
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:122 [[Non-discrimination]]
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:123 [[Mutual Agreement Procedure]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Double Taxation Agreements: IHT</span>'''''
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:124 [[IHT Double Taxation Treaties: Introduction]]
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:125 [[IHT DTAs: India, Pakistan, Italy, France]]
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:126 [[IHT DTA: South Africa]]
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:127 [[IHT DTA: USA]]
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:128 [[IHT DTA: Netherlands]]
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:129 [[IHT DTA: Switzerland]]
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:130 [[Credit for Foreign IHT]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Administration</span>'''''
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:131 [[Reporting and Compliance]]
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:132 [[Tax Return Filing Position]]
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:133 [[Claims]]
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:134 [[Collection of IT/CGT from UK Representatives]]
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:135 [[Collection of Tax Across Borders]]
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:136 [[Reporting and Compliance: IHT]]
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:137 [[Penalties]]
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:138 [[Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion]]
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:139 [[Reporting Offshore Trusts]]
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:140 [[International Movement of Capital: Reports]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">CRS & Money Laundering</span>'''''
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:141 [[Common Reporting Standard]]
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:142 [[Trust Registration (TRS)]]
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:143 [[Customer Due Diligence]]
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:144 [[Money Laundering: POCA]]
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:'''Appendices'''
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Words & Concepts</span>'''''
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:[[Appendix 1 Words of Dispute]]
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:[[Appendix 2 Common Legal Expressions]]
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:[[Appendix 7 Beneficial Ownership/Entitlement]]
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:[[Appendix 8 Domicile]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Statutory Construction</span>'''''
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:[[Appendix 9 Construction of Tax Statutes]]
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:[[Appendix 10 Substance and Reality]]
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:[[Appendix 11 Deeming Provisions]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Special Taxpayers</span>'''''
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:[[Appendix 12 Parliamentarians]]
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:'''''<span style="font-size:87%">Tax Reform</span>'''''
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:[[Appendix 18 How to Improve Private Client Taxation]]
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:[[Appendix 19 Reform of Offshore Anti-Avoidance Law]]
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:[[Appendix 20 Citizenship-based Taxation]]
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:[[Appendix 21 The Wisdom of Parliament]]
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James Kessler's Private Client Taxation aims to set out a comprehensive discussion of private client taxation. Discussion includes:

  1. Income Tax, CGT and IHT on individuals and trusts
  2. The territorial limits of UK tax (now based on residence, situs and source)
  3. Other topics arising in this context, including tax avoidance, disclosure and compliance

This is a wide subject, or set of subjects, but in taxation, as in life, everything is connected.

PCT Online is the successor to Taxation of Non-Residents and Foreign Domiciliaries. The reforms of the FA 2025, which one might summarise as the abolition of domicile, required a new title. But the approach of this work is unaltered.

Contents

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Introduction
Dedication
Mobile Individuals Policy & Avoidance
1 Mobile Individuals: Tax Policy
2 Tax Avoidance
3 Targeted Anti-Avoidance Rules (TAARs)
Residence
4 Residence of Individuals
5 Residence of Trustees
6 Residence of Companies
7 Treaty-Residence
8 Split Years
9 Temporary Non-residence
10 Exit Taxes
11 UK Arrival or Departure: Tax Checklist
Income Tax: Principles
12 Income and its Categorisation
13 Source/Territorial Principles
14 Income Recognition: Receive/Entitled/Arise/Paid
FIG Relief: TRF & Former Remittance Basis
15 FIG Relief & Overseas Workday Relief
16 Temporary Repatriation Facility
17 The Remittance Basis
18 Remittance Reliefs
19 Mixed Funds
Income by Category
20 Trading Income
21 Cessations & Trading Stock
22 Trading in Land
23 Performers
24 Property Income
25 Deduction of interest from Property Income
26 Interest Income
27 Exempt Interest of Non-Residents
28 Accrued Income Profits
29 Deeply Discounted Securities
30 Dividend Income
31 Corporation Tax on Company Distributions
32 Annual Payments
33 Intellectual Property Income
34 Misc Sweep-Up Income
Employment Income
35 Employment Income
36 Travel Expenses
37 PAYE
38 Disguised Remuneration/Trading Income
39 Employment Income: DT Relief
40 Benefit in Kind: Family Home and Chattels
41 Loans from Companies
IT: General
42 Discretionary Trusts: Income Tax
43 IIP Trusts: Income Tax
44 Rates of Income Tax/CGT/CT
45 Personal Allowances
46 Non-Resident Income Tax Relief
47 National Insurance Contributions
IT Avoidance Codes
48 Settlor-interested Trust Code
49 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Introduction
50 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Transferors
51 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Benefits
52 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Relief from Overlapping Charges
53 Transfer of Assets Abroad: Motive Defence
54 Pre-2025 Protected Trust Income
55 Profit Fragmentation
56 Transfer of Income Streams
57 Transactions in Securities
Capital Gains Tax
58 Chargeable Gains
59 UK Property Held by Non-Residents
60 Hold-over Relief
61 Liquidation of Companies
62 Reorganisations
63 Residential Property: CGT
64 Gains of Non-Resident Settlor-Interested Trusts: s.86
65 Capital Payments from Non-Resident Trusts: s.87 Code
66 Borrowing by Non-Resident Trust: Sch 4B
67 Sub-Funds
68 Gains of Non-Resident Companies
69 Capital Losses
Funds
70 Funds: Terms & Concepts
71 Offshore Income Gains
72 Income from Offshore Funds
73 Unit Trusts & Transparent Funds
74 Life Policies and Contracts
75 Intermediated Securities
Investment Management
76 Investment Manager Exemptions
77 Carried Interest/Investment Management Fees: Introduction
78 Carried Interest
79 Investment Management Fees
Inheritance Tax
80 IHT Terms and Concepts
81 Normal Expenditure Relief
82 Excluded Property: Definition
83 Excluded Property Exemptions
84 Wills and IOVs
85 Reservation of Benefit
86 Inter-Trust Transfers: IHT
87 IHT Treatment of Debts
88 IHT Close-Company Code
89 IHT Residential-Property Code
90 Pre-Owned Assets
Partnerships
91 Partnerships
92 Partnership Income: Allocation
93 Salaried Members Code
94 Partnerships CGT
Entities
95 Settlement, Bare Trust, and Associated Terminology
96 Estates of Deceased Persons: CGT
97 Estates of Deceased Persons: Income Tax
98 Foreign Entities
99 Hybrid Entities
Pensions & Employment Benefit Trusts
100 Pension and Annuity Income
101 Employer-Financed Retirement Benefits Scheme
102 Pension IHT
Topics Affecting More Than One Tax
103 Non-Resident Spouse
104 Joint Accounts
105 Foreign Currency Issues
106 Cryptoassets
107 Unremittable Assets
108 ATED and SDLT
109 Who is the Settlor?
110 Multiple Settlors
111 Statutory Tax Indemnities
112 Situs of Assets for IHT
113 Situs of Assets for CGT
114 Control Connected Close and Related Expressions
115 Participation, % Investment & Material Interest Tests
116 Permanent Establishment
Double Taxation Agreements: IT/CGT
117 Double Taxation Arrangements: Introduction
118 DTA Anti-abuse Rules
119 Third Party Relief/Savings Clause
120 Limitation on Benefits
121Credit for Foreign Tax
122 Non-discrimination
123 Mutual Agreement Procedure
Double Taxation Agreements: IHT
124 IHT Double Taxation Treaties: Introduction
125 IHT DTAs: India, Pakistan, Italy, France
126 IHT DTA: South Africa
127 IHT DTA: USA
128 IHT DTA: Netherlands
129 IHT DTA: Switzerland
130 Credit for Foreign IHT
Administration
131 Reporting and Compliance
132 Tax Return Filing Position
133 Claims
134 Collection of IT/CGT from UK Representatives
135 Collection of Tax Across Borders
136 Reporting and Compliance: IHT
137 Penalties
138 Failure to Prevent Tax Evasion
139 Reporting Offshore Trusts
140 International Movement of Capital: Reports
CRS & Money Laundering
141 Common Reporting Standard
142 Trust Registration (TRS)
143 Customer Due Diligence
144 Money Laundering: POCA


Appendices
Words & Concepts
Appendix 1 Words of Dispute
Appendix 2 Common Legal Expressions
Appendix 3 Family Terminology
Appendix 4 Share/Security Terminology
Appendix 5 Consideration, Arm's Length, Full Value
Appendix 6 Commercial/View to Profit
Appendix 7 Beneficial Ownership/Entitlement
Appendix 8 Domicile
Statutory Construction
Appendix 9 Construction of Tax Statutes
Appendix 10 Substance and Reality
Appendix 11 Deeming Provisions
Special Taxpayers
Appendix 12 Parliamentarians
Appendix 13 Visiting Forces
Appendix 14 Diplomats
Appendix 15 Sovereign Immunity
Appendix 16 Students and Teachers
Appendix 17 Continental Shelf
Tax Reform
Appendix 18 How to Improve Private Client Taxation
Appendix 19 Reform of Offshore Anti-Avoidance Law
Appendix 20 Citizenship-based Taxation
Appendix 21 The Wisdom of Parliament



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