Scottish limited partnerships provide a corporate, limited liability, vehicle for participation at Lloyd's while retaining the tax treatment of trading through a partnership for the individual partners.
Scottish partnerships (unlike English partnerships) have a legal identity separate to that of the individual partners1. This means that they are able to satisfy the requirement at Lloyd's for members to personally underwrite business2.
Until the creation of UK-wide Limited liability partnerships, they provided the only route to satisfy the Lloyd's requirement through a partnership vehicle.
The tax treatment of Scottish limited partnerships follows the general principles of partnership taxation, but also takes into account the specific Lloyd's rules in the Lloyd's Underwriters
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