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In this issue: General election 2024 Probate Court of Protection Spouses, civil partners and cohabitants HMRC Manuals updates Tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland International Question of the week Additional Private Client updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts LexTalk®Private Client: a Lexis®PSL community New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Latest Q&As Useful information General election 2024 Law360: On 13 June 2024, Keir Starmer said publicly that, if Labour wins the general election, it would usher in a period of ‘national renewal’, with economic growth and wealth creation at its core, firmly steering a manifesto and programme overall notably free of any surprise headline commitments that day. See News Analysis: Labour prioritises wealth creation in election manifesto. Law360: The UK’s third-largest political party pledged on 10 June 2024 to lift capital gains tax for the country’s wealthiest people...

What does this Practice Note cover? This Practice Note outlines the principal aspects of a total return (or total rate of return) swap (TRS), including: what a TRS is how it is classified who enters into a TRS, and how to document a TRS What is a total return swap? A TRS is a derivatives agreement through which one party transfers the complete economic performance, including income from interest and fees, gains and losses arising from price movements, and credit losses, of a reference obligation to another party. TRSs may replicate the effect of securities financing transactions (SFTs)—they can function as synthetic repo instruments for funding purposes. SFTs and TRSs are used extensively by managers of collective investment undertakings to obtain exposure to certain strategies or enhance their returns. A TRS is an over-the-counter, off balance sheet transaction. One participant, the total return payer (the TRS payer or ‘beneficiary’), will pay to the other participant, the total return receiver...

Banking & Finance glossary A Auditing and Accounting Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) The foremost Islamic, international, autonomous, independent, not-for-profit corporate body that develops and issues accounting, auditing, governance, ethics and Shari’ah benchmarks and standards for Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) and the wider Islamic finance sector. Founded in Bahrain in 1991, it is backed by a number of institutional members across more than 45 countries, including central banks and regulatory authorities, financial institutions, accounting and auditing practices, and legal firms. Its pronouncements are currently applied by leading Islamic financial institutions across the world and have advanced a progressive and gradual harmonisation of global Islamic finance practice. It also delivers professional qualification programmes—notably Certified Islamic Professional Accountant (CIPA), Certified Shari’ah Adviser and Auditor (CSAA), and the corporate compliance programme—in efforts to strengthen the industry’s human capital and governance frameworks. For further details, see Practice Note: Key participants in the Islamic finance industry—Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). Acceleration Acceleration is the formal action...

ARCHIVED The rules set out in this archived Practice Note apply to companies that most recently opted into the patent box regime for an accounting period commencing before 1 July 2016, in respect of qualifying IP the company applied for or acquired before 1 July 2016 (or, in certain cases, 2 January 2016). Different rules then apply to any new qualifying IP acquired after that date. The revised approach in Practice Note: Patent box calculation of relief—new rules applies to all companies from 1 July 2021. The patent box is an optional regime delivering an effective 10% corporation tax rate on worldwide profits linked to qualifying patents and comparable intellectual property rights. Profits within the scope of the patent box are, in effect, charged to corporation tax at the reduced rate of 10%—see Practice Note: Commencement and phasing in of patent box relief below. The legislation gives effect to the relief by permitting a deduction to be taken when computing the company’s trading profits for the relevant accounting period....