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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Inheritance tax is a lovely piece of lateral thinking
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:55,
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That is fucking bollocks, as is the whole old people's home costs
I need the conversation with my parents soon to get them to sign over their house to me
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:56,
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done and done, I have power of attorny over them if i can prove that they are doolally
MWAHAHAHAHAHA
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:58,
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Got to do it nice and early.
If it looks like a dodge it can be unwound. Buy the house for a vastly reduced sum and give them a life tennancy until they are frail.
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Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:58,
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This sounds like a good plan
I thought it was to do with 7 years or something
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:59,
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About right. It can still be reversed if it looks dodgy though. Hence try not to do it as a gift.
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Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:00,
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£1 seems reasonable to me for a 2 bed bungalow
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:01,
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Steady, I think your Dad's trying to mug you off!
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Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:04,
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I'm going to start stealing from them now
really I'm doing them a favour
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:01,
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That's the one where somebody you love dies and leaves you whatever they've managed to scrape together
over a lifetime of 50% effective tax and once they pass it on to you, the government taxes you on it?
Even death can't save you from the taxman.
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Kroney, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:57,
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what's sad is when people have to sell treasured possions/homes to pay the tax on treasured possesions homes
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:58,
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