What Jimmy Carr's tax muddle may mean for IFAs

TAXMAN'S REVENGE

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Celebrity efforts to mitigate tax by using complicated (if legal) schemes hit the headlines this month. But, with David Cameron getting involved, what are the implications for advisers?

Many advisers say Jimmy Carr had it coming – especially after he tried to blame his IFA for a week of bad press. The comedian was forced to apologise after it emerged he, and hundreds of other high-profile individuals, diverted most of his earnings into K2, a Jersey-based trust which repaid the money as a loan, mitigating their tax bills to little more than 1%. “I met with a financial adviser and he said to me ‘Do you want to pay less tax? It’s totally legal.’ I said ‘Yes’,” Carr said. “I now realize I’ve made a terrible error of judgment.” Whether his error was simply being caught...

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