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Where to store savings?

Morning my friends.

What is the best way to hide (not sure if that's the correct term) your savings from a government body so they cannot debit your account for example if they believe you owe them money..... when you dispute it.

Trying to rack my brain and struggling so after some ideas.

Thanks.
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  • InvestInPoker
    InvestInPoker Posts: 1,356 Forumite
    edited 22 March 2015 at 5:27AM
    What is the best way to hide (not sure if that's the correct term) your savings from a government body

    Do not even try.
  • Do not even try.

    Good answer lol
  • joeblags
    joeblags Posts: 169 Forumite
    remove from your account but don't spend it incase you find out that you "do" owe the money lol
  • kingrulzuk
    kingrulzuk Posts: 1,330 Forumite
    Morning my friends.

    What is the best way to hide (not sure if that's the correct term) your savings from a government body so they cannot debit your account for example if they believe you owe them money..... when you dispute it.

    Trying to rack my brain and struggling so after some ideas.

    Thanks.

    Best to put the money overseas where you can earn good %
    What happens if you push this button?
  • badger09
    badger09 Posts: 11,718 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Morning my friends.

    What is the best way to hide (not sure if that's the correct term) your savings from a government body so they cannot debit your account for example if they believe you owe them money..... when you dispute it.

    Trying to rack my brain and struggling so after some ideas.

    Thanks.

    What are you trying to hide?
    From whom?
    What do they believe you owe, and why?

    I have never heard of any government body which arbitrarily accesses your bank account and removes funds from it.
  • colsten
    colsten Posts: 17,597 Forumite
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    Judging by his other posts, OP seems to have some concerns about child support payments (which he says are up to date) and that more money might be taken from him if he has additional income or savings. So he isn't really trying to hide the money from government bodies but from his child.

    I am out.
  • Morning my friends.

    What is the best way to hide (not sure if that's the correct term) your savings from a government body so they cannot debit your account for example if they believe you owe them money..... when you dispute it.

    Trying to rack my brain and struggling so after some ideas.

    Thanks.
    Gold, silver, other precious metals. Buy them cash. Leave no paper trails. Store in a safe place.

    And yes, they are savings.
  • Safest way to hide is store your money is to invest them, in this way you will not have to worry about hiding them from anybody.
  • jimjames
    jimjames Posts: 18,939 Forumite
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    badger09 wrote: »
    What are you trying to hide?
    From whom?
    What do they believe you owe, and why?

    I have never heard of any government body which arbitrarily accesses your bank account and removes funds from it.

    In the UK anyway. I think effectively that's what happened in Cyprus.
    Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.
  • HSVX
    HSVX Posts: 35 Forumite
    kingrulzuk wrote: »
    Best to put the money overseas where you can earn good %

    http://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/uncoveredinterestrateparity.asp
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