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Originally posted by NowPermOutsideUK View PostI know this is general so forgive me for asking but having read the hmrc forums can I just make sure I understand in a nutshell what happened to people who took out loans as disguised renumeration
1) hmrc are rolling up all the loans and taxing them in one year - ok that I understand and expected from the loan scheme
2) more worryingly liquidators are now chasing the contractors and asking for the loans to be repaid
Is this the way the cookie crumbles with the contractor get shafted by both hmrc and liquidator or a bogus loan?
Like I said I did not do this loan scheme but if (2) is true then this is really nuts
I too am curious about point 2). I sat next to someone back in 2001 who went for one of these schemes - from (faded) memory it was involved something truly bonkers like a pineapple farm in the Bahamas, but I might be embellishing that. I told him at the time that I thought he was mad, and I did wonder how you could both set up a legally realistic looking loan without also having the real risk that your creditor could eventually come looking for the money back. Does anyone know if this has actually happened to anyone since then? The person I sat next to was on a good rate, for a fair few years, and also an extremely profligate spender. I haven't kept in touch but I do wonder if he got caught out by it in the end.Comment
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From posts in the HMRC forum (2) looks like its really happening which caused me to raise my eyebrows. SHocking but apparently true fine and legalComment
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Originally posted by nowpermoutsideuk View Postfrom posts in the hmrc forum (2) looks like its really happening which caused me to raise my eyebrows. Shocking but apparently true fine and legal
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Originally posted by mattster View PostI think point 1) is pretty simple, in that any loan that is cancelled or forgiven is treated as taxable income at that moment. Quite how anyone thought they would get away with this sort of scheme is beyond me. HMRC don't really need to prove any sort of intent to claw to the money back on that basis alone.
I too am curious about point 2). I sat next to someone back in 2001 who went for one of these schemes - from (faded) memory it was involved something truly bonkers like a pineapple farm in the Bahamas, but I might be embellishing that. I told him at the time that I thought he was mad, and I did wonder how you could both set up a legally realistic looking loan without also having the real risk that your creditor could eventually come looking for the money back. Does anyone know if this has actually happened to anyone since then? The person I sat next to was on a good rate, for a fair few years, and also an extremely profligate spender. I haven't kept in touch but I do wonder if he got caught out by it in the end.
If the loan is forgiven or written off it's possible that inheritance tax may be due if the "loan" came from a trust.
As for point 2 - see https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...s-summary.html one of the risks of getting the loan shifted overseas is that they may fail to actually do so legally (see all the Bestpay examples) and the other one is that the loan ends up returning back to the IoM later (see Fecilitas).Last edited by Contractor UK; 11 January 2021, 12:27.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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And there's the possibility of IHT to consider.
Great news for a widow to read from her doormat mail I would imagine."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
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Originally posted by cojak View PostAnd there's the possibility of IHT to consider.
Great news for a widow to read from her doormat mail I would imagine.Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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