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How to Avoid Inheritance Tax, 3rd Edition

By: Carl Bayley

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Product code: 22029
ISBN: 1904608280
121 pages
Format: Pb
Published by: Taxcafe UK Ltd, 2005, 3rd edition

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Description of How to Avoid Inheritance Tax, 3rd Edition

Proper inheritance tax planning could save your family hundreds of thousands of pounds.

This comprehensive and newly updated book tells you everything you need to know about protecting your assets from the taxman.

It takes a detailed look at both simple and sophisticated inheritance tax planning strategies and will help you decide what action you and your family should take now.

The guide is extremely comprehensive and contains numerous examples and clearly written explanations.

Subjects covered include:

- Plain English guide to calculating inheritance tax.
- Detailed list of amounts that are completely tax free.
- How to gain extra mileage from the £275,000 nil rate band.
- Ten inheritance tax planning techniques for protecting the family home.
- Thorough, detailed analysis of the new 'pre-owned assets' regime.
- Traps to avoid when transferring assets to your spouse.
- How to make use of the little-known "regular payment" technique to pass unlimited funds to family members.
- How discretionary trusts and reversionary interest trusts can be used to protect your assets from the taxman.
- Pros and cons of using life assurance and insurance for tax planning purposes.
- How to pass on a family business without paying any inheritance tax.
- How to make Lifetime Transfers in the most tax efficient manner.
- Everything you need to know about Potentially Exempt Transfers.
- Tax dangers surrounding shares portfolios and other volatile assets.
- Why gifts have to be made in a specific order to avoid overpaying tax.
- How the Annual Exemption can be used to save tax of £20,000 in a short space of time.
- Using family weddings to pass assets to children, future grandchildren and other family.
- Tax planning techniques for common law partners.
- Capital gains tax traps to avoid.
- How to save over £100,000 in tax by not passing assets to your spouse.
- How to carry out effective inheritance tax planning without causing financial hardship to yourself or your spouse.
- How foreign domicile can be put to use to escape UK inheritance tax.
- How to make sure friends and family do not face unequal tax bills.
- How a couple, in the space of 48 hours, managed to give their sons £20,000 completely free from tax.

How to Avoid Inheritance Tax, 3rd Edition - Chapter headings

1. Introduction to Inheritance Tax
2. A Brief History Of Inheritance Tax
3. Why Worry about Inheritance Tax?
4. Where Does the Tax Come From?
5. Who Pays Inheritance Tax?
6. The Basic Calculation on Death
7. Payment and Administration
8. The Nil Rate Band
9. Transfers to Spouses/Partners
10. Lifetime Transfers
11. Potentially Exempt Transfers
12. Death Within Seven Years of a Lifetime Transfer
13. Lifetime Exemptions
14. Other Exemptions
15. Business and Agricultural Property
16. So Why Not Just Give it All Away?
17. Introduction to Trusts
18. How Married Couples/Partners Can Double the Nil Rate Band
19. Life Assurance and Insurance
20. The Family Home
21. Income Tax on Pre-Owned Assets
22. Tax Planning with Discretionary Trusts
23. Reversionary Interest Trusts
24. Gift/Loan Trusts
25. Deeds Of Variation
26. Domicile

Appendices

A. Inheritance Tax Exemptions 2005/2006
B. Double Tax Treaties
C. Useful Addresses
D. Connected Persons
E. Example Documentation
F. National Bodies

Authobiography of Carl Bayley

Carl Bayley is an expert at translating complex tax laws into plain English and helping investors and businesses pay less tax. Trained as a chartered accountant, Carl is a well-known conference speaker and a regular contributor to television and radio on tax matters.

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