Trust And Tax

Family office, trust and tax services

A cornerstone of your financial planning, we’ll work with you to arrive at a suitable strategy for yourself and future generations.

A cornerstone of your financial planning, we’ll work with you to arrive at a suitable strategy for yourself and future generations, to help ensure your tax and trust needs meet your objectives during your lifetime and beyond.

We’ve built our reputation in trust and tax around strong relationships. We act as corporate trustees* to many family trusts and charities, with support provided by a talented team of Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) — qualified practitioners, chartered accountants, chartered tax advisers and solicitors.

We’ll manage all of your trust and tax affairs under one roof, and we’ll liaise with advisers and specialists so you can focus on other things.

A selection of the services we offer are:
Corporate trustee
Corporate executorship
Trust advisory
Inheritance tax and succession planning
Tax planning
Private philanthropy

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Family office

Covering your family’s financial landscape, we provide services that are bespoke to individual circumstances, with your financial affairs managed under one roof, including asset management, estate planning and succession planning and other legal services. You’ll have direct contact with your Rathbones representative who will coordinate with others for you, with an aim of making even the most complex arrangements completely seamless.

Our team have significant experience in the management of successful Landed Estates and provide valuable input into the strategic planning for landowners. We work closely with the family to understand how you want your Estate to evolve and work closely with other advisers to create and implement a plan for the future of the Estate. This includes assessing possible business ventures, developing and enhancing existing commercial operations and appraising current activities. We can also help with repurposing Estates to future proof the operations to ensure the future financial sustainability of the Estate.

Landed Estates evolve over time and the issues facing them are constantly changing. Our Family Office team have the expertise and experience to work with you to realise the potential of the Estate.

Trust advisory and compliance

At Rathbones, we’ve structured and managed trusts as an effective way of controlling wealth for future generations. Structured correctly, trusts can transfer assets tax efficiently, ensure smooth family inheritances and support philanthropic activity too.

Our team of experts can support you with your trust’s entire financial affairs by preparing annual accounts, tax returns, beneficiary income certificates as well as identifying any planning opportunities throughout the life of the Trust.

We aim to form long standing relationships with our clients which enable us to plan for the future so as to understand your objectives and ensure that we act to achieve those with you.

Executorship services

Dealing with bereavement is always very difficult and our team can take responsibility for the administration of the Estate. They’ll identify all assets and liabilities and deal with them in accordance with the instructions of the deceased as well as prepare the necessary papers for the application of the Grant of Probate. Our clients value our expertise to take away the pressure of all that is required following a death.

Personal tax services

By managing anything from simple tax return compliance to complete income and capital tax and estate planning we have one simple aim: to make life easier for you. Our skilled team of chartered tax advisers, chartered accountants and tax professionals will help structure all your financial affairs correctly and efficiently.

Whether you’re a UK resident or looking to work and live in the UK, we can provide an efficient and appropriate structure for your financial affairs. We can even extend our support to provide complete accounting services for your family company. We’ll handle your reporting obligations and take responsibility for your corporate tax administration, including VAT, so you can focus on other more important matters.

Philanthropy

Rathbones’ tradition of philanthropy and caring about the welfare of others has been part of our values since our founding in 1742. Extending that legacy, our team of experts, many of whom are trustees, are here to explore and manage the details that can further your philanthropic endeavours.

We already provide advisory services and guidance to trustees and charities to help them understand and successfully fulfil their requirements. The fact that we’ve supported philanthropic efforts over generations means we are well versed in the careful planning, effective communication and efficient administration that these structures demand.

From understanding your objectives, we can take on many of the potentially complex tasks and actions that come with charitable trusts. We can create and register charitable structures and advise on good governance. And we can assist trustees by preparing meeting papers, liaising directly with applicants and undertaking due diligence.

When it comes to the details, we can save time by carrying out the book keeping and preparing annual accounts. We can also complete the regulatory requirements of the Charity Commission and Companies House, as appropriate, reviewing the charity’s tax position and reclaim Gift Aid, maintaining records and liaising with HM Revenue & Customs.

Our team can help in preparing wills and giving advice on inheritance tax; they can take care of issues connected to residential property, like purchase, lending and right issues, and they are expert in the complexities of landed estates.

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Our trust and tax team

Trevor Harris

Managing Director

Trevor Harris

Managing Director

London

Trevor Harris is the Managing Director of Rathbones Trust Company and has over twenty years’ experience advising families and trustees.

Trevor is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Association of Taxation Technicians and has a degree in Accounting and Finance. Trevor started his career as a Trust Junior with a top 20 Accountancy practice in London and joined Rathbones in 2006 as a Trust Accountant. Trevor left Rathbones in 2017 to head up the Trust department at a firm of London Accountants where he was a Partner before re-joining Rathbones in 2022.

Trevor specialises in family office services for high net worth clients with a focus on landed estates. Trevor’s extensive technical knowledge and experience enables him to provide practical solutions to clients in line with their objectives.

Trevor Harris is the Managing Director of Rathbones Trust Company and has over twenty years’ experience advising families and trustees.

Abby Hughes

Trust Administrator

Abby Hughes

Trust Administrator

London

Abby recently graduated with a first class History degree from the University of Birmingham and has since begun their career with Rathbones Trust Company in 2023. Abby assists case managers with their administrative tasks.

Alanna Mok

Tax manager

Alanna Mok

Tax manager

Liverpool

Alanna joined Rathbones in 2015 having graduated with an honours degree in Economics from the University of Liverpool. Alanna specialises in personal taxation and manages a diverse client portfolio. Alanna is fluent in Cantonese.

Alanna is a qualified member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and is currently working towards Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) status.

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Family office, trust and tax services

Family office

Trust advisory and compliance

Executorship services

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Philanthropy

Our trust and tax team

Trevor Harris

Trevor Harris

Abby Hughes

Abby Hughes

Alanna Mok

Alanna Mok

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