The HMRC changed US Pension taxes on the 12 March 2025. Many advisers and expats in the US/UK community read the HMRC published statement in its International Manual (IM70020), which shook the world of cross-border financial planning. After nearly two decades and a status quo firmly in place for 22 years under the US-UK Double Taxation […]
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2025 was the breaking point for US expats and their investment accounts. A collection of regulatory deadlines, trading platform updates, and risk-management initiatives reached critical mass, turning a slow bleed into a torrential deluge, with many US expats turned away from their US brokerage accounts. Let’s dig into exactly why 2025 was the year US
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High earners have been in this Budget’s cross-hairs – especially if they also have investments, rental property, big pension contributions or a £2m+ home. This is a pretty tough financial planning day for these folks. So let’s digest the budget 2025 for those that are climbing the career ladder and have 20 years remaining in
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Budget 2025: How Income, Savings and Investment Are Really Changing The 2025 Budget marks a decisive shift in how the UK government taxes income, savings and wealth. What a mucky field now. While the headlines focus on stability and fairness, the small print reveals a structural re-engineering of the tax system — moving the burden
The government has announced in the 2025 Budget that the UK income tax thresholds will be frozen until April 2031 (a further 3 years from the original plan). This apparently technical change in how income tax is collected has wide-ranging consequences for household finances and long-term wealth building. By 2031, tax thresholds will have been
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David and Maria are British citizens who lived and worked in the U.S. for several years. Their daughter, Isabella (8), was born in the U.S. and is a dual citizen. They returned to the UK three years ago, but do expect to return to the USA, but as their daughter is a US Citizen, they
We often get asked how we came to specialise in financial planning for American citizens and dual-citizens. It wasn’t a case of a business plan, drawn up in a business school; it was a question of life, lived overseas, from an early age, and taking a much broader view of the world than many of our
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President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law on Sunday (5 Jan 2025), a landmark act that will remove the reduction of retirement benefits for those receiving non-covered pension income. This transformative law ends the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), two controversial changes that have been detrimental
Professionals accelerating up the corporate ladder or high earners face complications as their incomes break through different thresholds. A pair of rules where you earn two pounds and lose a pound creates a real dilemma for people who want to plan their long-term futures. Known as the “60% Tax Trap” and “Taper Tax”.. We have
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