If Albanese’s newest budget can tame discretionary trust tax dodging, it will be a good step in ensuring the rich are treated the same as the rest of us ...

A perennial tension in trust law concerns the extent to which trustees may accede to a settlor's wishes to maintain secrecy over the existence of a trust and its beneficial class. This article ...

Deck: A response from the authors of “A threat to All SNTs,” November 2004 issue, to a letter to the editor from Richard E. Davis, member of Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co. L.P. inCanton, ...

Murphy’s Law applies itself with surprising vigor in the estate planning field. If your clients are leaving outright, no-strings-attached inheritances or gifts to their beneficiaries, they are ...

Labor has taken another step to put tax and fairness at the centre of its policy agenda by proposing a crackdown on discretionary trusts, which it claims would raise A$4.1 billion over the forward ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...