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Double Tax Risk When Gift Home to Children

Published / Last Updated on 16/12/2015

Video looks at gift with reservation rules for inheritance tax and the risk of inheritance tax plus capital gains tax if you gift property and then derive a personal benefit from it by not paying a market rent.

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