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UK - How to hide money & property ownership?

Hello,
What is the best solution and why?
A UK citizen
living in the UK
who wants to hide their money from the UK government
and purchase UK property without the UK government knowing that they own that property.

Thanks for any help you provide.

I'm unaware of the requirements for buying property in the UK.

But you can setup a Swiss AG, bypass the UBO regulations and buy property via the AG. Find a Treuhand that setups a new AG for you so your identity will not be shown in the incorporation docs. The whole stup will cost you approx 5-8K CHF per year (nominee director), so you better buy a very expensive house :)

If you only have a couple of £100K to spend, just file the income, pay taxes and you will not have to worry.
 
cost you approx 5-8K CHF per year (nominee director), so you better buy a very expensive house
great suggestion, it's very expensive compared to regular services in other offshore jurisdictions. However it's Swiss so it's expensive and as long as this works it may be cheap for someone.
 
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I'm unaware of the requirements for buying property in the UK.

But you can setup a Swiss AG, bypass the UBO regulations and buy property via the AG. Find a Treuhand that setups a new AG for you so your identity will not be shown in the incorporation docs. The whole stup will cost you approx 5-8K CHF per year (nominee director), so you better buy a very expensive house :)

If you only have a couple of £100K to spend, just file the income, pay taxes and you will not have to worry.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Why Switzerland rather than:
Seychelles
St.Kitts & Nevis
Belize
Cyprus
St.Vincent & The Grenadines
BVI
 
Switzerland offers the only legal way to have UBO secrecy.
I thought (speaking about the register of companies in given country) some other countries offer that too - Marshall islands, Seychelles, Samoa ... - I may be wrong.
Anyhow no matter what when you need a regular bank account for any company in the world you are forced to reveal UBO to the bank and because of CRS to your local tax man - this applies to Switzerland too - at least I was told that when I was looking for such a structure. Not speaking about bank accounts in the countries not participating in CRS - like Montenegro, etc.
Can you please explain where I'm wrong?
 
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seems you are not wrong but it's going to be complicated to get a bank account say in Montenegro without plenty of money and some kind of introducer!
My point was how can an expensive Swiss way be better than say Seychelles - I'll have to tell the bank the "truth" about UBO anyway.
 
You need to incorporate a Seyhelles Foundation,if you want to stay anonymous you can put as founder of the foundation a charity.You can setup a Hong Kong company and open an account with a bank in Hong Kong(you have to fly there to open an account with a serious bank HSBC,Citybank etc.)They don't have agreements for information sharing there.
 
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Since october 2018, HSBC HK makes a review of all corporate accounts, offshore and HK companies. You have to provide about the same documents than if you open a new account, they call you also to have precisions about you and your companies :mad: That's boring.