Andy Kirby

My Approach

I have over 25 years of experience and work to provide a personal, friendly service aimed at providing bespoke solutions. Aptitude for a joint professionals approach working with accountants and financial advisers.

Area of Expertise

• Trusts and estates
• Lifetime Inheritance Tax planning
• Income and Capital Gains Tax
• Deed of Variation
• Personal Income Tax Affairs
• Capital Gains Tax
• Will planning
• Inheritance Tax

Recent Work

• Acting for the Trustees of a Bare Trust in relation to a Capital Gains Tax enquiry by HMRC which centered around the distinction between legal and beneficial ownership
• Advising a number of clients regarding the establishment of second property trusts to hold holiday homes
• Advising client on claim to main residence relief and let property exemption from Capital Gains Tax on disposal of former residence
• Advising separated couple on the remaining availability of spouse exemption from Inheritance Tax for Will planning
• Advised clients to transfer a proportion of Ethoca shares into family trust, IHT planning on personal element to include establishing AIM portfolio in conjunction with Tilney for £1m and charitable trust for £300k to include registration with charity commission
• Working with accountants to ensure that Pre-Owned Assets Tax (POAT) on a property was paid to avoid the revival of Gift with Reservation of Benefit (GROB), coordinating the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) aspects, advising on the IHT position as well as on apportionment of sale proceeds of the overall site
• Working in conjunction with England & Co accountants, establishing family trust with 5 acres of land on outskirts of Ringwood
• Originally identifying misunderstanding by trustees of nature of trust, dealing with submission of backdated trust tax returns as well as 10 year and exit charges and holdover relief claims between trustees and beneficiaries on vesting of property due to age contingency met.

Professional Associations & Qualifications

• Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
• Member of the Association of Taxation Technicians (Distinction)
• Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 UK 2024 for Wills, Trusts & Probate
• Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 UK 2023 for Wills, Trusts & Probate
• Recognised as a Key Lawyer by The Legal 500 (UK 2020) for Wills, Trusts & Probate