{"id":464,"date":"2026-05-10T06:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:41:11","slug":"pension-scams-britons-warned-over-criminals-offering-inheritance-tax-loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Pension scams: Britons warned over criminals offering inheritance tax loopholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters exploit confusion or anxiety over new IHT rules by offering a \u2018safe haven\u2019 for savings pots<\/p>\n<p>The caller pitches a great deal. Shift the moneysaved in your pension and reinvest it in a scheme overseas where you can avoid it being caught under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/mar\/22\/what-new-uk-rules-on-pension-inheritance-may-mean-for-you\">next year\u2019s changes to the UK\u2019s inheritance tax (IHT) system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From April next year, any money left in a defined contribution pension after your death, which is most workplace and all private pensions, will be pulled into the IHT net.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/may\/10\/pension-scams-inheritance-tax-loopholes-iht-rules-savings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters exploit confusion or anxiety over new IHT rules by offering a \u2018safe haven\u2019 for savings pots The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}