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HMRC offers chance to avoid court and settle EBT enquiries

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 | Posted by: Dave Jennings
Categories: Personal, Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, HMRC, Dave Jennings, tax avoidance, Protect Your Wealth, investigation, EFRBS, Employee Benefit Trusts, EBT settlement opportunity, litigation, EBT, personal tax, tax changes

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High-earning taxpayers who have avoided or deferred tax and national insurance contributions through the use of Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) arrangements are the latest targets of the taxman, following the announcement by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of a new EBT settlement opportunity on this type of tax planning.

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Last chance for EFRBS?

Wednesday, December 01, 2010 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax, tax planning, HMRC, HNWIs, Sue Knight, pensions, Employer Financed Retirement Benefit Scheme, retirement, EFRBS, remuneration, high earners, Finance Bill 2011, QNUPS

When the taxman turned his spotlight on Employer-Financed Retirement Benefits Schemes in 2009, it was with the aim of making this kind of tax planning less attractive. A year on, the death knell for EFRBS tax advantages may be sounding, but an alternative pension pot for high earners may live on.

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HMRC’s ‘spotlight’ casts further shadow over tax planning arrangements

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 | Posted by: Francesca Lagerberg
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax planning, HMRC, Francesca Lagerberg, tax avoidance, EFRBS, tax evasion, scheme, arrangements, Employer-Financed Retirement Benefits Schemes, spotlights

Sue Knight’s post on 5 October 2009,

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EFRBS appears on the tax authorities’ radar

Monday, October 05, 2009 | Posted by: Sue Knight
Categories: Protecting your wealth | Tags: tax planning, HMRC, Sue Knight, Employer Financed Retirement Benefit Scheme, EFRBS, high earners

Last month, I outlined Employer-Financed Retirement Benefit Schemes (EFRBS) as part of

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