CF1
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December 10, 2019
What You Need to Know About the Senior Managers and Certification Regime
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) replaces the Approved Persons Regime and from the 9th December 2019 applies...
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November 19, 2019
What are fixed interest securities?
As you revise for an upcoming CII exam, you might be unclear on fixed interest securities. This article explains...
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November 12, 2019
The Rules Surrounding Wills
It is still the case that an alarming number of people have not written a will. For these people,...
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November 5, 2019
Help to Buy ISAs versus the Lifetime ISA
With time running out to apply for a new Help to Buy ISA, here we look at the differences...
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August 27, 2019
A High-Level Look at the Main Recommendations of the OTS’s IHT Review
In January 2018, the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) was asked to review various aspects of inheritance tax (IHT). ...
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June 25, 2019
The CGT Consequences of Asset Disposals Between Spouses
This article discusses an area that often comes up in the CII multiple-choice and written exams: the capital gains...
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June 18, 2019
How to Answer a Taxing Question
We were recently asked about one of our questions that tests how dividends are taxed; this type of question...
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May 28, 2019
National Insurance Contributions for the Self-Employed
National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are covered in many CII exams including CF1, R01, R03 and AF1. Here, we look...
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April 9, 2019
Everyone should have a will
Everyone should have a will, yet the fact is that only 1 out of 3 of us actually gets...
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November 20, 2018
Know how to apply the 36% IHT rate?
The 36% inheritance tax rate has been with us for a while now but who understands how it actually...
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May 29, 2018
Understanding How to Apply the Transferable Nil Rate Band
A popular topic for both R03 and AF1 exams, in particular, is the transferable nil rate band. It sometimes...
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April 3, 2018
Transfers to Non-Domiciled Spouses/Civil Partners
Inheritance tax is based on domicile status. There’s no strict definition of domicile, but it’s taken to be where...
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April 11, 2017
Increase to Probate Fees from May 2017
This article was written before the surprise 2017 General Election was announced. The probate fees were scrapped at that...
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March 28, 2017
The Ups and Downs of the FSCS Figure
For those who may have missed this (or are just confused by it!), the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS)...
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August 31, 2016
