Offshore Trusts, Residence & Domicile (Non-Dom)
Most of this department’s work now involves advice to non-UK resident or non-UK domiciled individuals, which includes advising their offshore trustees.
“they’re always very efficient, they give good advice and they are easy to deal with…their advice is clear, objective and understandable.”
We enable offshore trust companies to navigate their many professional and compliance obligations.
We have strong relationships with fiduciaries and trust service providers in many different jurisdictions, co-ordinating effectively with advisers outside the UK so that the offering to settlors and beneficiaries alike is seamless.
We give clear and practical advice on:
- Residence and domicile advice and tax planning for non-domiciliaries (non-dom)
- Pre-immigration reviews and structuring advice to those considering coming to the UK
- Tax reviews, structuring and distributing advice for non-domiciled persons already resident in the UK
- Inheritance tax planning for long term UK resident non-domiciled persons and for UK property
- UK legal and tax issues facing trustees and beneficiaries of overseas trusts
- UK compliance services for offshore trustees, beneficial owners and controlling persons
- The fiduciary duties and obligations of trustees, including those under attack from beneficiaries
Payne Hicks Beach’s private client team is ranked in Chambers HNW 2021.
“you can tell that they care about their clients by looking at the quality of their work product…they take the time to address all questions to make sure everyone at the table understands what is going on. They go above and beyond. They’re a fantastic firm.”
insights
17 July 2025
Tax and Estate Planning expert, Phineas Hirsch, Partner at Payne Hicks Beach, has had his comments featured in the Daily Tele…
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Rachel Reeves to soften UK non-dom tax reforms – Robert Brodrick for the FT and Sky News
23 January 2025
Tax and Trust expert, Robert Brodrick, comments on Rachel Reeves plan to soften UK non-dom tax reforms in the Financial Times…
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Autumn budget 2024 – The abolition of the non-dom tax regime
1 November 2024
After nearly eight months of uncertainty following the March 2024 Spring Budget, the Autumn Budget has at last delivered a fu…
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Abolishing non-dom tax could see economy shrink by £6bn – Robert Brodrick featured in the FT Adviser
22 October 2024
Tax and Estate planning expert Robert Brodrick and Partner at Payne Hicks Beach comments feature in the FT Adviser. He stated…
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Expert echoes West Ham owner fears around non-dom tax changes- Basil Dixon for FT Adviser
8 October 2024
Basil Dixon, Tax expert and Partner at Payne Hicks Beach, spoke to the FT Adviser in response to the West Ham United co-owner…
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Changes to the taxation of Non-Domiciliaries (non-dom)
5 August 2024
The Labour Government published a short policy paper on 29 July 2024 setting out formally for the first time its plans for th…
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Non-doms: Should “fairness” trump tax raising
25 July 2024
Tax and Trust Experts Sam Carver and David Whithworth, of our Estates and Succession Team, write for TL4PC investigating the…
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Jeremy Hunt abolishes non-dom tax regime
7 March 2024
Private Client partner Basil Dixon comments in Spears Magazine and The New Law Journal following Jeremy Hunt’s announcement i…
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Britain loses non-doms to Italy as Hunt plots tax crackdown
5 March 2024
Chairman and Private Client partner Robert Brodrick, Payne Hicks Beach LLP was quoted in The Daily Telegraph by Deputy Econom…
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Chancellor considers scrapping non-dom tax status in Budget
1 March 2024
Chairman and Private Client partner Robert Brodrick was quoted in FT Adviser and Spears following the news that the Chancell…
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Non-Dom tax status: is it really a “200-year-old loophole”?
27 October 2023
Michael Parkinson ‒ tax, trust and estate planning specialist in our Private Client Team ‒ takes a frank look at the history…
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What are the implications of a Labour government for high-net-worth individuals (HNWs) and how might non-domiciled residents react? Robert Brodrick comments for Spear’s
27 September 2023
Robert Brodrick, Chairman of Payne Hicks Beach and Partner in our Tax, Trusts and Estate Planning Team, shares with Spear…
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Offshore Trusts – your questions answered
24 February 2023
As part of our fortnightly Private Wealth Planning series, Partner Frederick Bjorn and Tax Director Melissa Solly answers you…
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Payne Hicks Beach private wealth and tax experts head to the Channel Islands
6 October 2022
Next week Private wealth and trust expert Robert Brodrick will be in Guernsey and tax specialist Melissa Ellis in Jersey spea…
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Payne Hicks Beach’s private wealth and trusts experts to speak at International Trust and Private Client conferences in Guernsey and Jersey
27 May 2022
The Private Wealth sector is facing an almost unprecedented set of challenges born from the global crisis, political uncertai…
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UK Domiciled vs NonDom status – a guide to rules and tax implications
19 April 2022
Over the past couple of weeks the UK Government and an assortment of commentators and journalists have been grappling, often…
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Don’t start with the tax – successful family succession planning
19 January 2022
The pandemic has caused many of us to re-evaluate our lives, and this has been particularly true in the family business secto…
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Non-Court dispute resolution and cost-proportionate litigation
1 April 2021
The recent decision in WL and HL (Rev 1) [2021] EWFC B10 has shone a light on the importance of relying on non-court dispute…
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