Proper 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 2011 edition is hot off the press and completely up-to-date.

The guide contains both simple and sophisticated inheritance tax planning strategies - armed with these you and your family should be able to pay much less inheritance tax... or escape it altogether.

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This 2011 edition is already proving to be a bestseller, and is full of up-to-date unique tax saving ideas.

What Information is Contained in the Guide

How to Avoid Inheritance Tax is completely updated for the current tax year, written in plain English so its accessible to both the novice and the professional, and is supported with a large number of clear, concise examples throughout.

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The guide is extremely comprehensive and contains numerous examples and clearly written explanations. It's the most up-to-date book on inheritance tax in the UK. Subjects covered include:

• 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.
• 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 £650,000 free from both inheritance tax and capital gains tax.
• Detailed analysis of the very latest trust changes and their impact on popular tax planning.
• Plain-English guide to the various types of trusts: Discretionary Trusts, Interest in Possession Trusts, Accumulation and Maintenance 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 make Lifetime Transfers in the most tax efficient way.
• Everything you need to know about Potentially Exempt Transfers, tax free after 7 years.
• Tax dangers surrounding share portfolios and other volatile assets.
• 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.
• How every married couple can save up to £120,000 with one simple technique.
• 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.
• The fabulous AIM exemption: how to protect your wealth from inheritance tax after just two years.
• How you can knock up to 15% off your inheritance tax bill by simply changing the type of legal title you hold in your house.
• How to avoid UK inheritance tax if you emigrate.
• The different rules which apply in England and Wales or in Scotland -- it really can matter!
• Popular inheritance tax planning products explained.
• Practical answers to the problems of long-term residential care.
• What to do about tax planning done in the past which has now gone wrong.
• 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.

About the Author

The Author of How to Avoid Inheritance Tax is Carl Bayley. Carl's speciality is his ability to take the complex world of taxation and set it out in the kind of clear language that taxpayers can understand. Carl is also a regular contributor to TV programmes such as the BBC's It's Your Money programme and national newspaper articles on tax matters. He is a former member of the governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Ordering Information

All customers will receive a complimentary electronic copy of our comprehensive tax guide 'How to Save Tax 2011/2012' - worth £19.95.

You will have the option at checkout of receiving a free electronic copy of How to Avoid Inheritance Tax to read immediately.

What does the book cost?

The printed book costs £24.95.

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