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Estate planning has an image problem. Most people picture it as something for the very rich, a task for families with sprawling property portfolios and offshore accounts. So they put it off, assuming it does not apply to them. It does. If you own anything at all, a home, a car, a pension, a life policy, a bank account, you have an estate. And what happens to it when you die is either something you decide now, or something the law decides for you later. What happens when there

If you are a trustee, September marks a date worth putting on your calendar. Trust filing season opens on 19 September 2026, and the window to submit your trust income tax return runs all the way to 22 January 2027. That may feel like plenty of time, but the trustees who chart their course early are always the ones who sail through without stress. Here is what you need to know to stay on steady water. Who needs to file Every registered trust must submit an ITR12T income tax r

The first provisional tax deadline is approaching, and missing it comes at a cost. If you are a provisional taxpayer, one date should be circled on your calendar right now. Monday, 31 August 2026, is the deadline for your first provisional tax payment for the 2027 tax year. It arrives quietly, but the penalties for missing it do not. What this payment is Provisional tax is not an extra tax on top of income tax. It is simply a way of paying your income tax in advance, spread a