Do As He Says....and He Does ?

[bazwillrun]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11189430/Tony-Benns-inheritance-tax-dodge-how-it-works-and-how-you-can-use-it-too.html

sums the left and all their socialist ideological puke up really....

[naomi24]

Anyone with any sense avoids paying tax wherever legitimately possible, but coming from a critic of tax avoidance, it’s a bit rich – as was he. All for one and one for …. err ….. one. It’s the socialist way. ;o)

[Peter Pedant]

IHT is a voluntary tax - every fule know that

Chubby overfed old-etonian Osborne doesnt need your IHT

make a will and avoid paying it - jsut as Tony ( not my fave politiican ) did

[DTCwordfan]

Peter, hate to be pedantic, you arrive on Monday in the UK, leave on Friday, then that is only 3 tax days in the eyes of HMRC. I was a 'grass widower' for two years, living in NL and commuting to the UK, so if you travel on a weekly basis, weekends in home base, you can be domiciled in another country.

[Peter Pedant]

This has come up before in that organ of Truth Daily Mail - 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-487528/Exposed-How-Alistair-Darling-Tony-Benn-exploited-death-tax-loophole.html

[Peter Pedant]

.DTC - these are governed by 'fishermen's rules'

I cant believe you paid NO tax on your UK income
and as stated you should have paid NL tax which er is higher ( 60% for high earners ) .
NL and UK have a tax treaty - you had to be domiciled somewhere

as they say in the meedja - I cant comment on individual cases....

[ludwig]

// Benn live in the UK and paid tax all his life.

Unlike Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Deputy Chairman who was domicile to Belize to EVADE paying tax. //

Any mention of the word evasion is irrelevant to the OP. Benn is not being accused of doing anything illegal.
He is being accused of hypocrisy and double standards.

[bazwillrun]

Looks like ludwig is one of the few who gets it...

Benn and all his ilk were and are hypocrites of the worst sort

[Peter Pedant]

well I have been researching
and of all the many many things Tony Benn said, ( 2 million words apparently)
he doesnt seem to have said much about tax avoidance

[Zeuhl]

And he paid his fair share into the public coffers throughout his life so that people less fortunate could be helped

and he gave up a lot of his time free to good causes and to help others

and he was a major contributor to selected charities

What's 'un-socialist' about that?

[bazwillrun]

"he doesnt seem to have said much about tax avoidance"

he (Benn)obviously knew better to keep his mouth shut.......as he was practising it(avoidance), as we now know.