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IHT on gift
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Interesting article in the Telegraph on this subject, how HMRC has taken (Snatched is the headline) £600 Million in IHT from gifts that people made thinking by doing so it would reduce/avoid IHT.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/inheritance/taxman-snatches-600m-inheritance-tax-crackdown/
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Thanks for that but it's behind a paywall so can't read. Can you post the salient paragraphs?kaMelo said:Interesting article in the Telegraph on this subject, how HMRC has taken (Snatched is the headline) £600 Million in IHT from gifts that people made thinking by doing so it would reduce/avoid IHT.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/inheritance/taxman-snatches-600m-inheritance-tax-crackdown/How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 3.24% of current retirement "pot" (as at end December 2025)1 -
R-click on the article and press View Page Source and scroll down until you get to it.
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Sorry, but that does nothing but pull up pages and pages of "computer geek code". I scrolled right to the bottom and there was no article to read.dales1 said:R-click on the article and press View Page Source and scroll down until you get to it.How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 3.24% of current retirement "pot" (as at end December 2025)0 -
It is there, but you have to look for it.It doesn't look like a normal article because it has no headlines and contains bits of <geek code>.It .is slightly ove half way down.0
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Sorry, life's too short!!dales1 said:It is there, but you have to look for it.It doesn't look like a normal article because it has no headlines and contains bits of <geek code>.It .is slightly ove half way down.How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 3.24% of current retirement "pot" (as at end December 2025)1 -
The article doesn't really cover the topic being discussed in this thread (unavailability of taper relief on gifts under the NRB). Most of the text was about gifts with reservation.
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