This course should be of use to anyone dealing with the tax affairs of solicitors. To outline tax law and practice relevant to solicitors and other legal professionals and to discuss the commercial and regulatory enviroment within which they are obliged to operate. The course will review the tax affairs of solicitors together with some suggestions of tax planning points of particular relevance.

Part One :  Taxation Principles

• Principles of partnership taxation
• Partnership agreement
• Partners' expense claims etc.
• Rental income and interest payments
• Partnership changes
• Tax and 'salaried' partners

Part Two: The Commercial Environment

• The work of solicitors
• How solicitors are organised
• The regulatory framework

Part Three: Taxation for Solicitors' Clients

• Property transactions
• Matrimonial disputes
• Wills & Estates
• Commercial disputes
• Partnership dissolutions
• Employmemt law