JERSEY DOMICILE
TO AVOID DEATH DUTiES
THE BOOT MILLIONS.
LONDON, 18th June.
Lord Trent's will proved at Jersey does not disclose, the amount of his estate, but a sum. o£ £.350,000 baa Been left to charity, and tho residue to his widow. A codicil announces that be had abandoned British domicile . stod had taken up his domicile in Jersey. His fortune is estimated at between £2,000,----000 and £3,000,000. No d«ath duties arc payable in Jersey. • The late Lord Trent, formerly; Sir ; Josso Boot, proprietor of the wellknown chain of chemist stores in. Eugland, died on Saturday last. The adoption of Jersey domicile by. the late Sir Bobert Houston, the Liverpool multimillionaire shipowner, iom» years ago, similarly deprived the Treasury of a very large sum in death duties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 7
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