tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-84995426986611323162008-05-12T10:22:00.000+01:002008-05-12T10:22:00.000+01:002008-05-12T10:22:00.000+01:00Don't forget how the Milibands retrospectively arranged their inheritance tax affairs.<BR/><BR/>http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2004/09/estate-in-capitalist-society.html<BR/><BR/>"after Ralph Miliband, the Marxist father of David and Ed, died in 1994, he transferred almost all his assets, including homes in London and Oxfordshire, to his wife. <BR/><BR/>However, after taking professional advice, the family is understood to have posthumously rewritten his will to give 20% of the London home to both David and Ed. <BR/><BR/>David has declared a “20% share of family home in London” on the MPs’ register of interests since 2002. <BR/><BR/>This scheme is called a “deed of variation” and was highlighted by the chancellor in opposition as an unacceptable way in which the wealthy avoid paying death duties."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com