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Capital gains still efficient for high earners

Investments liable to capital gains tax are likely to remain attractive to high earners after the pre-Budget report

Tax dodgers to face tougher penalties

Tougher sanctions on UK tax dodgers are expected to be unveiled next month, intensifying the pressure on holders of secret offshore accounts to sign up for an ‘amnesty’ which has been extended until the new year

Wealth questions: Avoiding inheritance tax

I want to make a substantial lifetime gift to my children in the hope that I live for seven years and so avoid IHT on the transfer. Is there a way of ensuring that my daughter’s husband does not become entitled to a share?

How to beat pre-Budget tax increases

Buyers of £500,000-plus homes and owners of second properties may be able to avoid potential tax rises in the pre-Budget report on December 9 by taking action now

Tax amnesties get off to a slow start

Just 27 taxpayers have registered with HMRC since the Liechtenstein Disclosure facility was opened on September 1.

TUC to propose tax relief cap for top earners

The union will argue that the government should repair the UK’s public finances by making those who earned more during the economic boom pay a fairer share of tax

Super-rich buy gold and sell hedge funds

The world’s wealthiest families are shifting out of equties in the wake of the financial crisis, according to a survey of family offices and advisers of the super-rich

Pensioners could be eligible to reclaim tax

Non-taxpayers can reclaim money on savings that were taxed at the wrong level

Tax boost for Santander shareholders

More than 100,000 shareholders with Santander, the Spanish bank that owns Abbey and Alliance & Leicester, are receiving a tax boost to their latest dividends by taking the distribution in new shares rather than cash

Solicitors warn against DIY estate planning

Far more people are turning to their bank manager and the internet for advice on estate planning – raising concerns from solicitors that the advice given may not be adequate

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