Revealed: Wealthy being pitched offshore products said to shelter fortunes from inheritance tax and capital gains tax

The super-rich are being advised how to use a loophole in pensions investments to shelter their wealth from Labour’s clampdown on large-scale tax dodging, the Guardian can reveal.

Undercover filming by the Guardian suggests multimillionaire UK residents are being pitched offshore products said to legally protect their fortunes from inheritance tax (IHT) and capital gains tax (CGT).

At a private event held a week before the general election, the international accounting brand Baker Tilly told advisers to the ultra-wealthy how they could use offshore pension schemes to shield their clients’ fortunes from tens of millions of pounds of inheritance taxes.

One promoter told how his client had placed £30m into a pension scheme to protect it from inheritance taxes.

  • @[email protected]English
    32•4 months ago

    If there are loopholes that fucking sucks… so snoop on those consultants and fix them. If they’re illegal (I see a lot of scare quotes) then fucking arrest them.

    • @sandboxEnglish
      20•4 months ago

      Uh, buddy… the loopholes are a part of the system. It’s intentional. The state exists to serve the rich and powerful. Law is a tool for them for them to use to oppress the working class, not to restrict themselves.

      • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMeEnglish
        2•4 months ago

        Yeah the loopholes were written by people who went into business, learned the tricks of the trade, got advised on how to skirt the system, ‘retired’ to an advisement position lobbying or joining the government entities responsible for making policy so they can put new loopholes into the system and advise companies on how to use them.

  • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    7•4 months ago

    • Live in a tax haven for the wealthy

    • Run the country into the ground with batshit insane Tory leadership

    • Lose election to milquetoast moderate liberals in a Ba’ath Party Margin wave of defeat

    • Liberals decide to raise taxes slightly

    • Yank all your money out of the UK banking system at once, collapsing the western finance system

    • Only place left with a functional banking system is China

    • Become communists

  • @[email protected]English
    5•4 months ago

    Brilliant call from the Guardian to have foreseen this and infiltrated in the movement. Now name and shame the bastards.