Stephen Woodward edits Clarke's Offshore Tax Planning

The latest edition of Clarke’s Offshore Tax Planning (LexisNexis) was published on 25 September 2024.  Stephen Woodward has taken over the editorship from Giles Clarke KC of the Trusts and Companies Volume.  The Foreign Domiciliaries Volume of Clarke continues to be edited by Dominic Lawrance and Catrin Harrison of Charles Russell Speechlys LLP.

Clarke’s Offshore Tax Planning provides a practical analysis of the planning opportunities for investment offshore through analysis of anti-avoidance legislation, extended treatment of non-domiciliaries and an examination of existing offshore structures.  You can purchase a copy here.

Released prior to the Autumn Budget 2024, the new government’s changes have not been part of Offshore Tax Planning in 2024-25; those changes will be covered in Offshore Tax Planning in 2025-26.  There have been encouraging noises from the new government that the parts of the UK tax code that apply to offshore entities are too complex, particularly the Transfer of Assets Abroad regime, and its equally perplexing and vexatious sibling the Income Tax Settlements Code.  Reform in these two areas of the offshore tax code would be welcome.

Stephen will be providing a detailed breakdown of the changes announced in the Autumn Statement at a special Budget seminar in London on 21 November. If you would like to attend this session, please email events@threestone.law

Stephen is a barrister specialising in private client tax and trust advice and advocacy.  He is a Chartered Tax Advisor and previously qualified as a solicitor, working at Withers LLP then Payne Hicks Beach where he was a partner in the private client department.