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How to Avoid Inheritance Tax

By Carl Bayley BSc ACA

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

This comprehensive and easy to read guide tells you everything you need to know about protecting your assets from the taxman.

The eighth edition of How to Avoid Inheritance Tax has just been published and contains all the 2009/2010 tax changes.

This comprehensive guide is packed full of practical examples and tax planning ideas and, over the last six years, has built a reputation as the best inheritance tax planning book in the UK.

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What Information is Contained in the Guide?

Subjects covered include:

• All relevant changes from the most recent Budgets and Pre-Budget Reports.
• Plain-English guide to calculating inheritance tax and how the tax works.
• Tax planning timetable: Steps to take at key points in your life to make long-term tax savings.
• Detailed list of completely tax-free amounts - these can save you literally thousands every year.
• How the £325,000 exemption can be used not just once but every 7 years.
• Detailed analysis of how the new IHT rules affect married couples.
• How to use the little-known ‘regular payment’ method to pass unlimited funds to family members.
• More than a dozen inheritance tax planning techniques for protecting the family home.
• How to pass on investment properties worth up to £636,000 free from both inheritance tax and capital gains tax.
• Detailed analysis of the latest trust changes and their impact on popular tax planning techniques.
• Plain-English guide to the various types of trusts: Discretionary Trusts, Interest in Possession Trusts, Life Interest Trusts, Bare Trusts, Bereaved Minor’s Trusts, ‘18 to 25’ Trusts and Disabled Trusts.
• How trusts can be used to slash your inheritance tax bill - with real-life examples.
• How to use Business Property Relief to pass unlimited assets to your family.
• How to get a double deduction for qualifying business property.
• How to make Lifetime Transfers in the most tax efficient way.
• Everything you need to know about Potentially Exempt Transfers, tax free after 7 years.
• Using family weddings to pass assets to children, future grandchildren and other family.
• Tax planning techniques for common law partners.
• Important steps to take to avoid capital gains tax when transferring assets to your family.
• How to plan for inheritance tax without causing financial hardship to yourself or your spouse.
• How hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with foreign domicile can protect their foreign assets from inheritance tax.
• How a couple, in the space of 48 hours, managed to give their children £20,000 tax free.
• Why it’s not too late even after death: The fabulous technique which enables families to save hundreds of thousands of pounds by making retrospective changes to their dear departed’s Will.
• What inheritance tax planning steps you should take when you lose a parent or spouse.
• How to keep control over your income when you give away capital.
• How you can knock up to 15% off your inheritance tax bill by simply changing the legal title you hold in your house.
• How to avoid IHT on valuable antiques, paintings, etc.
• How to avoid UK inheritance tax if you emigrate.
• How some people could avoid IHT simply by moving around the UK.
• Popular inheritance tax planning products explained.
• Practical answers to the problems of long-term residential care.
• How to retire to the country and save inheritance tax at the same time.
• How to benefit minor children and children who aren’t even born yet.
• Plus lots and lots more tax tips, examples and explanations.
• Dozens of clear real-life examples are used throughout to explain important points.

 

Click here to read the full contents listing and first chapter of the book

 

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