Access to free relationship counselling services should be provided as a matter of priority to help couples experiencing marital difficulties whilst under quarantine, UK private client law firm Wilsons has suggested.

The firm said that employers who wish to pay for their employees to access counselling services to help them deal with stress resulting from coronavirus isolation or for personal relationship difficulties should be able to do so without incurring a tax or National Insurance charge on the cost of that service.

Graham Coy, a family law partner at Wilsons, said that HMRC must consider waiving any tax charges (...