Saturday, April 9, 2016

By Edward Baker


Many people feel the pinch of having to pay tax. Especially the pay as you earn levy is very painful for most of the people. The more one earns the more he gets to be taxed. But the levy aims at bridging the gap that exists between the poor and people who are rich. Rich people usually feel this PAYE as being too harsh on them and that is why they try to avoid paying taxes legally.

Rich people and some corporation use legal and also quasi-legal tricks basically to hang or cling onto their money. Though there are some other methods being used to avoid paying levies that are illegal. If one uses unlawful methods to escape remitting their taxes then they risk being heavily penalized or serving a jail term.

But there are those methods which are considered as not being illegal. If one understands tax laws clearly, they can avoid remitting their taxes simply by using the following methods. One can learn how to manage their capital gains. This is done by first understanding the prevailing rates on capital gains and classifying your assets under the class with lowest rate.

This has been a significant corporation asset to dodge paying heavy taxes. Apart from the corporations, there are quite a number of popular celebrities who have numerously taken advantage of their global travels and also relocations to simply avoid remitting income tax. Some of these celebrities include the rolling stones and David Bowie among others.

Another great tactic is simply to take a small portion of compensation or income as stock options. The options are only taxed when they are being exercised. Tax deferral can be used to avoid paying levies. Some wealthy people enjoy same tax-deferred advantage or benefits of program for retirement like IRAs among other. Because of wealth, these people are able to max them out yearly hence benefiting entirely from the limits basically allowed by law.

Capital gains management is basically one of the ways used by rich people to save on tax. Assets classified under long-term capital gain that is if they are held approximately for more than one year are generally taxed at a flat rate of 15% and for rich people their rate is 20%. So these wealthy people take advantage of this and classify their short-term assets under long-term assets.

Capital gains from short-term assets are taxed at a rate of 39.6% hence if one intentionally classifies their assets as long-term instead of short-term they end up saving almost 50% of tax. Any monetary stream classified as capital gain will generally be classified this way so as to take advantage or benefit from these rates.

People are advised to use all their income tax allowances like saving in ISA or individual savings account or transferring some savings to another partner who basically do not pay tax. So they qualifies them to pay little tax on interest and also dividends. People should also avoid SDLT by simply purchasing properties below or under the various thresholds whose rates can grow.




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