Saturday CPD Conferences for Practitioners - Conference Two

TAX INVESTIGATIONS

KEY FEATURES
• key issues for getting the best deal for clients
• practical advice from an experienced practitioner
• case studies
• how to deal with meetings
• minimising the damage for the client
• cutting the costs of dealing with investigations.

LECTURER
Chris Chadburn BSc Econ,Principal, Chris Chadburn Associates

FINANCE BILL/ACT 2008

KEY FEATURES
• general review of the 2008 Finance Bill
• personal tax review
• capital taxes refresher
• corporation tax overview
• stamp duty land tax (SDLT) planning
• business tax summary
• NIC refresher
• interaction of taxes and general planning.

LECTURER
Tim Palmer CTA, ATT,Director, Bhavna Palmer Associates

EMPLOYMENT LAW

KEY FEATURES
• recruitment and selection – pitfalls of selection, including interviews
• employment status – employee, worker,agency staff, contractor? Who is entitled to what?
• contract of employment – recent developments
• health and safety and the problem of stress, working time
• discrimination – recent cases of interest to SMEs, family-friendly rights
• sickness – dealing with long and short term absence
• dismissal – toolkit for the SME.

LECTURER
Louise Dunford LLM LLB, Barrister, Training Consultant

PRACTICAL INHERITANCE TAX

KEY FEATURES
• maximising the use of exemptions and reliefs
• excepted estates
• identifying and avoiding the pitfalls when dealing with normal (non-excepted) estates
• who bears the liability?
• practical consequences of lifetime giving
• BPR and APR
• efficient share portfolios
• post-death variations.

LECTURER
Tony Jenkins CTA, Consultant and Lecturer, Dragon Training

FEES
Three conferences £310
Two conferences £235
One conference £130

For added flexibility, delegates booking a package of two or three conferences can now mix and match from the following programmes:
• Saturday CPD Conferences
• Summer update
• Autumn update