Private Client Discussion Group
In association with Pro-Manchester
Date: Thursday 15 October 2009
Time: 0800 - 0930 hrs
Venue: The St James's Club, 45 Spring Gardens, Manchester M2 2BG
Speaker: Geoffrey Shindler OBE, Partner in Lane-Smith & Shindler LLP
Title: Where we are up to with Inheritance Tax
Cost: Free - Refreshments provided
Topic - The discussion will explore the current situation with inheritance tax, focussing on the following areas:
- Inheritance Tax in a declining market
- Future of the Trust
- Business Property Relief
- Agricultural Property Relief
- Family Home
- Transferable Nil Rate Band issues
Geoffrey Shindler OBE is a partner in Lane-Smith
& Shindler LLP a Manchester based firm that specialises in wills, trusts, capital taxation and
estate work.
He has a degree and post graduate degree in law from the University of Cambridge and is a solicitor and registered Trust and Estate Practitioner. He was one of the founder members of STEP and its Chairman between 1994 and 1998.
He was Chairman of its Education Committee when its Diploma examination was developed and introduced. He is its World President.
He is Chairman of Manchester Camerata and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester; he is a trustee of the Portico Library Charitable Trust; is Chairman of the Business Committee of Lancashire County Cricket Club General Committee. He is a member of the Trust Law Committee and has sat on various committees studying the working of inheritance tax legislation in the UK.
He is a member of the International Academy of Estate & Trust Law. He is the Consulting Editor of Trusts & Estates Law & Tax Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of Wills & Trusts Law Reports.
