Registering Client's Trusts & Estates

New advice appears to have been issued:

Register your client’s trust https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-your-clients-trust
10:32am, 20 December 2017 Updated content to make clear what you need to register for an agent services account.
If you’re a tax agent or adviser and your client has a trust with a tax liability, you can register it online.

Register your client’s estate https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-your-clients-estate

10:39am, 20 December 2017 Updated content to make clear what you need to register for an agent services account.
If you’re a tax agent or adviser and your client has an estate with a tax liability, you can register it online.

Andrew M Mortimer

Updating Trust Registration Service

HMRC is implementing the Trust Registration Service in a number of phases. Currently, it is not possible for lead trustees and their agents to update their registered information or to declare that there have not been any changes.

The work to allow trustees and agents to update their details online is now underway. Following user feedback, we are switching to a new system (a ‘micro service’) which will be more intuitive, easier to navigate and have several advantages over the current ‘iForm’ service. We intend to roll out the new service at the start of the summer of 2019 and functionality will be expanded gradually in a series of deployments, which will include the ability to update details.

In the meantime, if you need to inform HMRC that the lead trustee or trust correspondence address has changed, then please write to us at:

Trusts
HM Revenue and Customs
BX9 1EL

NOTE FROM AGENT UPDATE ISSUE 70

Lucy Orrow
Lambert Chapman LLP