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Family Investment Company (FIC) - A Complete Guide
How to use a Family Investment Company to eliminate inheritance tax, and reduce personal income & capital gains tax by using a combination of personal and corporate tax reliefs.

Farm Inheritance Tax Guide
Inheritance Tax (IHT) is a major concern for farmers across the UK. Unlike many other businesses, farming often involves valuable land and assets that have been passed down through generations.

Autumn Budget 2025: A Strategic Response to the Rising Tax Tide
The Autumn Budget signals a new era of wealth taxation with shrinking reliefs, frozen thresholds, and tougher rules. For families seeking resilience, the Self-Administered Family Office (SAFO) may be the answer.

How This Construction Business Owner Unlocked £34K in Annual Savings Without Chasing More Revenue
Mark runs a thriving construction company. On paper, everything looked solid: annual profits north of £300,000, a healthy pipeline, and no shortage of work. But here’s the kicker—despite all that, he couldn’t get £100,000 net into his family’s hands each year without feeling the pinch.

How the 2024 Autumn Budget Punishes Business Owners — And How a Mural Crown SAFO Fights Back
The 2024 Autumn Budget didn’t just nudge taxes upwards it made business ownership in the UK materially harder. From higher employer NICs to a stealth cap on inheritance relief, profitable founders are now penalised at every stage: income, exit, and succession.

The Greatest Leap in Personal Wealth Management in Living Memory
What most families lack isn’t another fund, or another tax wrapper. It’s a structure that actually supports the weight of their ambition. That’s what the Mural Crown SAFO delivers and it does it without compromise.

How to Break the IHT Chain: Using Control Without Ownership
Stop letting inheritance tax strip away your family’s wealth. Let Mural Crown show you how to break the chain once and for all.

Case Study: How the Patels Transformed a £15m Business into a Tax-Efficient Family Wealth Engine
With succession on the horizon, our client needed a strategy that would minimise tax burdens and preserve their family's wealth for generations. Discover how we helped them!

Case Study: How a Family Investment Company Can Be of Benefit
Mr and Mrs Hughes have successfully run a marketing company together for over 10 years and are now looking to sell part of the business. Read this case study to see how a Family Investment Company helped them.

Case study: FIC setup for a working family farm worth circa £3m
Before the Autumn 2024 Budget this family farm was exempt from inheritance tax (IHT) due to 100% Agricultural Property Relief (APR). Read their case study to find out more.

Case study: How a Family Investment Company benefited the owner of a Plumbing company
See how the tax relief and exemptions available to a Family Investment Company helped one of our clients keep control of more of their wealth.