clint van damme
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Ladies and gentleman, your Prime Minister
But as you point out, the great neice got a fortune through to reason other than distant blood ties. It's not an overly fair system!
And as mentioned, I appreciate the imperfections. That said, if you're well-off, then you're already giving your children the advantage of a stable home, good education etc, let alone any inheritance. Gordon Ramsey certainly isn't handing it all over, but they still get a bump beyond many.
Gordon Ramsay: 'My fortune won't be going to my children in my will'
Gordon Ramsay is not known for mincing his words, so it should come as no surprise to learn that writing up an interview with the outspoken chef is akin to devising an elaborate game of “fill in the blanks”.www.telegraph.co.uk
(The precis is here, as that's now paywalled!)
Imagine if Diane Abbot…Ladies and gentleman, your Prime Minister
Hmmm, I accept a lot of the above but who says well off have a stable home ?! Some kids shunted off to boarding schools, many receiving a lack of love or interest from one or both parents and still the possibility of broken homes etc etc.
I like people like Ramsey’s views on inheritance (think Daniel Craig came out with something similar recently) what can be considered as a gift can end up being a burden and drain on ambition and I’d imagine lead to some kids not fulfilling their potential. Ultimately, after paying IHT it should be the individuals choice on what they do with their cash though. a lot give significant amounts to charities...many of which might well utilise it better than the government !
You need to let Abbot go mate. If he turned up with his shoes on the correct way around he's already one up on her.Imagine if Diane Abbot…
He looked, but they didn't buy in the end. Have to make do with Jasper Carrot, Bev Bevan, and Tony Iommi as the celebrity Warwickshire lot.I could be wrong but contacts still in the area told me Craig bought either his or his wife's kid (can't remember which) a huge house in Leek Wootton just to go to Uni in the area. Presumably Uni of Warwick.
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I'm sure someone reported seeing him at the gym in The Warwickshire. From what I could gather he got one for himself and then another for the kid further down the line. You know how rumours get though.He looked, but they didn't buy in the end. Have to make do with Jasper Carrot, Bev Bevan, and Tony Iommi as the celebrity Warwickshire lot.
People saw Russian soldiers on their trains in WW1, because of a supply of Russian eggs!I'm sure someone reported seeing him at the gym in The Warwickshire.
The not so nice end of Leamington bizarrelyPeople saw Russian soldiers on their trains in WW1, because of a supply of Russian eggs!
Didn't know the Ross Kemp one - where's he live?
If true, that's another one I'll have to cyberstalk and be ignored by.The not so nice end of Leamington bizarrely
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You could also find Peter Shilton in Kenilworth, sure he'd be happy to have a good old moan about Maradona if you wanted to join in.If true, that's another one I'll have to cyberstalk and be ignored by.
He can hook up with Mike Brewer for a pint, then!
Is he making a documentary about the rough side of Leamington?The not so nice end of Leamington bizarrely
At the moment everyone pays the total value of care barring a tiny sum and many still receive shit care. Nearly everyone benefits from the proposals. One of the main beneficiaries will be younger people who will at least receive some kind of inheritance now (even from average house price) and could use it to get on the ladder. The richer, assuming their assets remain in their estate, will have a bigger inheritance tax bill which comes back into the pot anyway
A higher proportion of the additional NIC which will be used to fund better care for all, will be paid for by bigger businesses and higher paid employees.
As I mentioned it’s an imperfect solution and I’d rather the very rich make an additional contribution but as discussed these people are out of the system anyway even though many probably would’ve contributed a lot towards it. The poorest in society should hopefully get better free care in future...if nhs doesn’t swallow the additional cash
I'll be signing over everything I own to my son long before I'm dead so the government don't get their grubby mits on a single penny. I've earned it, I've paid tax on it, I want my son to have it. Inheritance tax my arse.
No he hasn't I have, and if I choose to give it all to my son before I'm dead no one can say anything about how I use my money.But your son hasn't earned it has he? The business I work for has earned the money before they pay me, so why should I pay tax on it? When a workmen does a job for me why should he pay tax on the money seeing as I've already paid tax when I earned it?
It seems that we're at a bonkers situation whereby if you work for your money you should pay tax on it, if someone just hands it to you then you shouldn't. Absolutely bizarre.
It's how I'd rectify it, make inheritance tax more progressive.
It's a difficult thing, inheritance. It seems fundamentally unfair to get a leg up because your parents, not you, have worked hard... and I think back to somebody I knew who died, who had no children or surviving siblings, so a random great neice they'd never met got the entire £1mil+ estate!
But at the same time, I'm not going to refuse anything my parents are able to leave me, out of principle!
Never got this “already taxed income” line. All money has been taxed before. I don’t not pay VAT on my shopping because I paid income tax on my wages. And Aldi will take that income and use some to pay business rates. You don’t tax money you tax transfers of money.
No he hasn't I have, and if I choose to give it all to my son before I'm dead no one can say anything about how I use my money.
Completely different, absolute load of rubbish as usual. I'm going to do it anyway and it's perfectly within the law, I'm sure you'll get over it.It's my money, I've paid tax on it and if I chose to pay the workmen cash in hand so they don't pay tax who are the government to tell me I shouldn't? In fact why, don't I just gift him the money as a nice gesture and if he then chooses to do some work for me just as a friend what's the problem?
Progressive inheritance tax would be a better means than the flat one, although the biggest problem is the ultra-rich just putting their money where it can't be got at.
I'm thinking of the possibility of changing it from treating it as inheritance to income, so rather than it being a tax paid by the dead person it's paid by the beneficiaries. Essentially treating them as having earned it. Still has potential loopholes of course - ensuring the beneficiary is a UK taxpayer etc.
Then a person leaving the inheritance can decide whether to give it all in one go and take the massive tax hit or spread it out so the beneficiary can make more use of their personal allowances etc. If the estate is spread out among more people then the allowances of all the people will result in a lower tax take but all the wealth will be distributed out more. If one person gets it they'll take a bigger hit.
It'd need proper data I don't have access to in order to work out how much it would raise relative to current legislation and work out where it might be open to abuse.
Best start now if you want to avoid tax - £3k per year.Completely different, absolute load of rubbish as usual. I'm going to do it anyway and it's perfectly within the law, I'm sure you'll get over it.
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I thought cash paid into a trust attracted tax on death anyway?I’ve got most of my money in a discretionary trust - it does exactly as you want - the beneficiary is taxed on it as income when the beneficiary withdraws it but it’s attracting no IHT - why should my estate pay out?
I mean its not taxable to a certain extent. If you gift it him and its not taxable during lifetime, youll still be charged if you die within 7 years of gifting anyway.No he hasn't I have, and if I choose to give it all to my son before I'm dead no one can say anything about how I use my money.
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If he goes into a home relatively soon after gifting it too, it's deprevation of assets, and they'll come after him anyway.I mean its not taxable to a certain extent. If you gift it him and its not taxable during lifetime, youll still be charged if you die within 7 years of gifting anyway.
I thought cash paid into a trust attracted tax on death anyway?
I'm aware. If its the case then so be it but I'll try and avoid it.I mean its not taxable to a certain extent. If you gift it him and its not taxable during lifetime, youll still be charged if you die within 7 years of gifting anyway.
CGT can be triggered on 'second death' I believe. This is testing my memory but I remember a former footballers son ringing up my old workplace trying to get advice on how he could pay no tax on the multiple properties he owned by utilising trusts.I mean its not taxable to a certain extent. If you gift it him and its not taxable during lifetime, youll still be charged if you die within 7 years of gifting anyway.
I'm aware. If its the case then so be it but I'll try and avoid it.
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Thanks! It's actually something I was going to research properly further down the line, for obvious reasons, so I can't pretend to be fully clued up. I'm sure I'll figure it out though.There are actually lots of things you can do to protect the money you have earned from falling into the clutches of the taxman. As you get older you can start to look at utilising both tax bands so they are properly used and investments into trusts which are paid at the discretion of the trustees.
Completely different, absolute load of rubbish as usual. I'm going to do it anyway and it's perfectly within the law, I'm sure you'll get over it.
How can he return to front line politics?Nige is obviously in need of a few quid again
The logic is that I feel the best use of my money is to ensure my son has the best life I can possibly give him. That's what would give me to most joy out of what I've earned. I don't apply the same logic to some cash in hand workers.Legally it is different but in the logic should it be? Do work for money - get taxed. Do nothing for money - don't get taxed. Surely you can see how that doesn't make sense and is a situation that only exists because those with all the money shaped the laws that made it the case out of self-interest. Then tell the working classes that the pittance they've scraped together in a life of toil can be passed onto their family and they lap it up like it's some huge act of generosity and benevolence.
As you say you're entitled to do what you're suggesting and I don't begrudge you that at all. I'm just not convinced that is what the rules should be but until they're changed you do what you feel is best for your family.
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