Leaders & Columnists
Western Leaders Still Fighting the Last Economic War
Future Tense
Politicians and bankers are inefficiently using old tools with old attitudes, when what they need is to face the future and acknowledge its new challenges. With the countdown to global financial Armageddon started, the only issue is who will get there first, Europe or America?
The Localism Bill's Dangerous Disregard for Local Feeling
Reform the Reforms
Britain's heritage needs to be protected, not harmed for quick bucks. The draft Localism Bill and National Planning Policy Framework threaten to harm not only our heritage, but our economy too.
The Giver and the Gift
Sophie McBain speaks to Richard Ross, whose Rosetrees Trust funds a variety of medical research, and Professor Nick Athanasou, a Rosetrees beneficiary who has himself become a donor
Cameron vs the Countryside
As part of Spear’s Save Britain’s Historic Landscape campaign, William Cash asks what the countryside is for and how we can protect it from energy companies and politicians
An HNW ABC
The second instalment of our lexicographical endeavour, a dictionary for the super-wealthy
At The Sharp End: Sir Frank Williams
The founder and manager of the AT&T Williams Formula One team faces our inquisition
The Celebrity Baby Nurse
Baby Grand
New mother Daisy Prince on the nanny whose celebrity clients, jet-set lifestyle and seen-it-all savoir faire have left her nursing a strange sense of insecurity
The Perfect Time to Build Your Own Home
Do Something Constructive
With property prices outside London falling and idle contractors eager for work, you can take advantage — just tread carefully if you’re looking for an architect, says Clive Aslet
Dressing For a Shoot
Point Blank
Nick Foulkes on the benefits of his new-found love of shooting — not least in his wardrobe
Sicily is Threatened by Wind Turbines Too
There Goes The Nationhood
Andrei Navrozov on all those Mediterranean Arcadias bulldozed in the name of progress — and why we can expect to see more of the same happening in these parts too
Unbillable Hours
Our specialists solve your HNW problems (gratis!)
Q
Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
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A lot has been made recently in the press about buyers of some of the UK’s most expensive homes avoiding stamp duty land tax (SDLT) by purchasing their home through a company.
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