Alex Berman
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Alex Berman

Director

Areas of expertise

Private client tax advice, including:

  • Personal and family investment structures

  • Residence and domicile

  • Succession planning

  • Holding structures for private business owners

  • Trusts and international structures

Experience

Alex specialises in advising private clients and their businesses on the breadth of their tax matters.

His clients appreciate receiving clear and practical tax advice, tailored to their broader commercial, investment and family objectives.

Notable client work and achievements

Alex's experience includes advising:

  • Family manager-owners of a national market-leading business on their holding structure, sale planning and estate planning

  • A non-UK domiciled family with a significant London real estate portfolio and complex international trust structure

  • Families on estate planning and investment company structures

  • An individual with a long standing HMRC enquiry, which was settled on positive, collaborative terms

  • The estate of a deceased businessman with international assets and beneficiaries, involving multiple wills and the establishment of new estate planning structures

  • Many individuals relocating to or from the UK

  • A US citizen on the restructuring and sale of a UK business and establishment of a trust and investment company structure.

Professional qualifications/memberships

Chartered Institute of Taxation

Association of Taxation Technicians

eprivateclient NextGen Leader 2023 and 2024

Citywealth Future Leaders Awards – Accountant of the Year Partner/Director 2024

Family succession discussions

Article

Surviving inheritance: Tax and governance for family businesses after BPR reforms

Inheritance tax changes are an opportunity for many family business owners to finally address succession and secure their legacy.

Hmrc Wealth Tax 2025

Article

Could a UK wealth tax be on the horizon as we approach the Autumn Budget 2025?

With speculation mounting in the press over the potential introduction of a wealth tax in the upcoming Autumn Budget, we consider what a wealth tax is, how it could be introduced in the UK and the legion of challenges it would raise.

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